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A HISTORY 

—OF THE— 

Towe of East=Hampton9 No Yo 

Ir^©ludir\g ar^ /^ddpQSB 

Delivepod at tl^e ©elobratiori of tl^e Bi-©©nteri- 
qial /Ir^qivepsapy of its Settlerqent in 1849, 

IjSCTl^OlDUOTIOjVcS 

To tl^e foup ppCr^ted vplunqos of its F^eeopds, 
\!v^ith| oth|op Histopi© j^atepial, aq 

/^ppoqdi^ aqd (5^er|Qalogieal J\[otos 

—BY— - 

HENRY P. HEDGES. 



"They haunt your breezy hillsides, green vales and thaadering floods, 
They linger by your gliding streams and mid your moss-draped woods, 
They sit beside youv green old graves in shadow and in sheen, 
And move among your household gods though voiceless and unseen. 
Then ye who make your happj' homes whore once their homes have been, 
Deem also this your heritage, to keop their memories green, 
To shield within your heart of hearts, the glorious trust ye hold, 
And bear unstained the naujes they bore, those brave, proud men of old." 

— Cornelia HmUington. 



SAG-HAEBOB : 
J. H. HUNT, PKINTEB. 

1897. 



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F>r^EPA©E. 



An address was delivered in 1849, at the celebration of the two hun- 
dredth anniversary of the settlement of the Town of East-Hampton. 
Introductions were printed with the four volumes of the Town Records. 
That address forms the first two and the introductions the nest four 
chapters of this book. The writer was advised to revise and re-cast all 
these. But the address is by age almost historic. That and the Intro- 
ductions are existing unities hard to transform. The writer is in his 
eightieth year, with limited activities, and unable to do this work. It 
must be in this shape and now or never. The last sis chapters comprise 
results of years of thought and study, as the pressure of business and 
the practice of an arduous profestion permitted. The appendix con- 
tains material historically invaluable. The genealogy is compiled with 
care and an aim for exactness more than quantity. The years of toil 
and historic labor embodied in this book, the esperienced alone can 
know. That it is not more symmetric none mors than the writer re- 
grets. It is far below his ideal. For the reasons stated perhaps its 
criticism should be gentle. To the many friends aiding in this work, 
whose number prevents special mention, thanks ! The history of this 
town is worthy of the most unremitting toil and the loftiest genius. 
The memoi-y of our forefathers demands the best their sons can give. 
Back, far back in the early English settlements of this fair land are 
found the springs from whence Its rich blessings flowed. But for the 
virtue, the piety, the self denial, the wisdom, the genius of the fathers, 
this Nation in the largeness of its freedom, the breadth of its educa- 
tion, the universality of its equal rights, the solidity of its unbroken 
union, the grandeur of its territorial greatness, the march of its benefi. 
cent^mission, could not have been. As a guiding constellation in the 
heavens, such thoughts have cheered the labors, softened the cares, 
dispersed the gloora, inspired the gratitude of the writer in compiling 
this work. May it inspire like thoughts in the hearts of the living and 
of coming generations. With that hope it was written. To that high 
purpose it is dedicated. 

H. P. HEDGES. 

BKIDaE-HAMPION, July, lt>97. 



©OJSTTEJSTTS. 

CHAPTER I— Addkess of 1849. 
The Introduction, p, 1, The Settlement, p. 3. The Settlers p 4 
Culture of the Soil, p. 9. Whaling, p. 10. The Courts, p. 11. ' Con- 
necticut Laws Adopted, p. 15. The Indians, p. 16. The Growth of 
the Settlement, p. 18. Amagansett and Wainscott Settled, p. 18. 

CHAPTER II— Addeess of 1849 continued. 
Combination and Laws of Connecticut Adopted, p. 20. Witchcraft p 23 
The Churches, p. 23. The Ministers, p. 23, The Spirit of Free- 
dom, p. 25. '.'.he Petition for Representation in Government, p. 26 
The Patent of 1686, p. 28. Samuel Mulford; p. 29. The Revolution, 
p. 31. Capt. John Dayton, p. 35. Clinton Academy, p. 37. Thoughts 
suggested, p. 37. Conclusion, pp. 39-43. 



CHAPTER III. 

INTKODUCTION TO VOL. I OF THE ToWN RECORDS, 1649-1680. 

Invitation to the Writer, p. 44. Government a Necessity, p. 45 Value 
of the Records, p. 45. The Town Meeting, p. 46. Representative 
Government Denied, p. 49. The Settlement Extended, p 50 
Witchcraft, p. 51. Whaling, p. 52. The Title to Lands, p. 53. The 
Church, p. 54. Lion Gardiner, p. 55. Character Fixed, p. 56. 

CHAPTER IV. 

INTKODUCTION TO VOL. II OF THE ToWN ReCOKDS, 1680-1720. 

The Growth of the Colony, p. 57. State of the Church, p. 58. The Rob- 
ber Government of the Province, p. 59. The Town Resists their 
Oppression, p. 60. The Address of 1685, p. 63. Leisler-Sloughter 
p. 64. Improvement of Lands in Common a Failure, p 64 Whal- 
ing, Farming, Shoemakiug, p. 66. The Fort, p. 66. The Burying 
Ground, p. 67. Death of Minister James. Rev. Nathaniel Huntting. 
the Ocean, p, 69. ^ 

CHAPTER V. 

INTEODTICTION TO VOIi. Ill OF THE TOWN RECORDS, 1702-1734. 

The Mother Country, p. 70. The Plague in London, p. 71. The Great 
Fire of 1666, p. 71. The Wars, p. 71. Emigration, Causes of p. 71. 
The Power of Great Britain Predominates, p. 73. Samuel Mulford 
p. (4. Simplicity of Manners, p. 74. Genealogy, p. 75. Trade Com- 
pel';?)';: Manufactures, p. 78. The Church, p. 79. Structure raised 
m 1717, p. 61. Account of, p. 81. 



CHAPTER VI. 

Intkodtjction to Vol. IV of the Town Eecokds, 1734-1849. 
Progress of the Age, p. 86. Allottment of Lands, p. 88. Cattle Marks, 
p. 90. Montauk, p. 90. Town Legislation, p. 91. A. Dog Law, p. 
92. The Revolution, p. 92. Old Style Changed, p. 94. Gardiner's 
Island Annexed to East-Hampton, p. 94. Notices of Ministers 
Huntting, Buell, Beecher, Phillips, Condit, Eleazer Miller, Nathan- 
iel Gardiner, Thomas Wickham, Jonathan S. Conkling, Abraham 
Parsons, Abel Huntington, M. D., David Hedges, Jr., Josiah 0. 
Dayton, Samuel Miller, pp. 95-97. Concluding Remarks,' p. 98. 

CHAPTER VII. 

The Indians— Death of the Manhansett Sachem, p. 99. Sachem's Hole, 
p. 99. Wyandance Attains Supremacy, p. 100. The Montauk Tribe, 
p. 100. Their Number, p. 100. Wars with Pequots and Narraghan- 
setts, p. 100. Navigation, p. 102. Wampum, p. 102. Religion, p. 
103. Missions, p. 104. Cockenoe de Long Island, p. 105. Indian 
Influence on the Anglo-Saxon, p. 107. Beman Father and Son, p. 
108. Love of War, p. 109. An Epitaph, p. 110. The Trustees of 
the Town of East-Hampton, p. 110. 

CHAPTER VIII. 
The Original Dwellings and their Location, p. 114. The Later Dwell- 
ings and their Surroundings, p. 115. Progress, p. 117. Home Man- 
ufacture, p. 117. Economic and Social Life, p. 118. Literature, p. 
119. The Galaxy of Mind, p. 120. Health, p. 121. County of Kent, 
p. 123. Maidstone, p. 123. Substitutes for Money, p. 126. Relig- 
ion, p. 127. The Sabbath, p. 129. Care of Indians, p. 129. Pity for 
the Poor, p. 130. 

CHAPTER IX. 

Government Impartial, p. 132. Prudent, p. 133. Forest Protected, p. 
133. Combination with Connecticut and New England, p. 135. 
Assembly of 1G65, p. 138. Duplicity of the Duke of York, p. 138. 
Southampton Disputes the Line, p. 139. Some Old Lots Located, 
p. 139. Emigration, p. 140. Wealth and Population, p. 141. The 
Tea Kettle, p. 142. Standpoint for a View, p. 142. 



CHAPTER X. 

The Revolution, p. 145. Major Cockeaue, p. 147. The Refugees, p. 149. 
The Culloden, p. 149. Major Andre, p. 149. Dr. Gardiner, p. 150. 
Dr. Buell, p. 150. Population, p. 151. The Quit Rent. p. 151. Ship- 
wrecks, p. 152. The Storm, p. 153. The Amistad Case, p. 155. 

CHAPTER XL 

Three Beechers in One Day, p. 162. John Howard Payne, p. 167. Miss 
Cornelia Huntington, p. 170. General Training, p. 172, The Whale 
Chase, p. 174. 

CHAPTER XIL 
Sag-Harbor, p. 180. 



APPENDIX. PAGE 

Indian Deed for East-Hampton, 1648 199 

Assignment thereof, 1651 199 

Trial of Wyandanch 200 

Oath of Town Officers 200 

Address at a General Training in June, 1682 201 

Tax List of East-Hampton, Aug. 24, 1675 202 

«« " " " Sept. 8, 1683 203 

Montauk Deed, Aug. 1, 1660 205 

" Hither End, Feb. 11, 1661 206 

Abstract, Dec. 1, 1670 208 

Assignment, May 23, 1671 208 

The Eastern part, July 26, 1687 208 

Abstract, 1702-3 209 

Dongan's Patent of the Town, 1686 210 

Letter of Freeholders of Suffolk County asserting rights, etc., 1701. 215 

Equalization of three Montauk Purchases, 1748 216 

General Association of 1775 220 

Muster Roll, Capt. Ezekiel Mulford's Company, 1776 222 

List of Town Officers, 1650 to 1750 224 

List of Supervisors, 1699 to 1848. 228 

List of Church Members removed, 1696 to 1800 229 

Trustees' Journal, extracts, 1726 to 1826 232 

J. Madison Huntting's Journal. 1841 to 1864 234 

Exhibition in Clinton Academy, 1821 237 

Toasts given at the Celebration, 1849 238 

Odes sung " " " 239 

Facetia ... 241 

Soldiers and Seamen who served in the War for the Union 1861-65 . . 242 

Genealogy ' 244 

Errata 345 



CHAPTER I. 



The Introductio)!, p. 1. The Settlement, p. H. The Settlers, 
p. 4. Culture of the Soil, p. 7. Whaling, p. 10. The 
Courts, 2^- 11- Connect Icui Laws adopted, p. 1:"). The In- 
dians, p. 10. Groivth of the Settlement, p. IS. Amagan- 
seti and Wainscott settled, p. IS. 

J\.lDJD¥mSS OF 184Q. 

Fellow Townsmen of East-Hamp'^'on : 

We meet to-day as natives of the same ueigliborhoocl, 
having enjoyed the same blessings, entertained the same 
early associations, indulged the same recollections, being 
bound together by the same social ties, and descended 
from the same common ancestry, to celebrate the Second 
Centennial Anniversary of the settlement of this Town. 

We are not unwilling to acknowledge our origin — we de- 
light to honor the memory of our heroic fathers, "Our j^ious 
ancestry," who "first planted religion, civilization and re- 
finement upon these shores." Degenerate and base indeed 
were we, enjoying as we do the fruits of their toils and 
sacrifices, never to turn in grateful remembrance and j)ay 
the tribute of filial affection to those who so dearly pur- 
chased them for their descendants. It is a high and holy 
sentiment of our nature which ^jrompts us, amid all our 
wanderings, to re-visit the home of our childhood, and look 
upon the graves of our fathers. Travel far as we may from 
the smiling abode of our infancy ; remain, as we may, for 
many long years absent, and still this sentiment clings to 
us in our wanderings. It travels with lis to the remotest 
lands. It swells our bosom on the ocean wave. It tri- 
umphs over time and space. One after another the asso- 
ciations and early remembrances of our youth come gush- 



iug upon the memory. We are overwlielmed bj'the tender 
recollections of our native laud, and — Kubdued by the emo- 
tions which our memory brings — we are irresistibly prompt- 
ed to turn our footsteps to the home of our infancy and 
the land of our fathers. Tliei'e, where we drew our first 
faint breath, Ave would lireathe our last : and where our 
fathers are liuried we desire our lifeless bodies to repose. 

It is a kindred, social sentiment which prompts us to 
in(|uire into our origin, to trace our ancestry, to commune 
in imagination with the spirits of our fathers, to recount 
their deeds, to celebrate their valor, honor their memory, 
and profit by their example and experience. Such consid- 
erations, we trust, brought us together to this, our home, 
the land of our venerated fathers. 

History we know is ever instructive in its lessons. The 
future to us is unknown and uncertain ; but the past is for- 
ever fixed and unchangeable. We )nay speculate upon the 
future ; each for himself may plan and arrange and liuild 
his superstructure according to his visionary anticipations. 
But whether that future shall rise in the shape and fair 
proportions of his visions or not, who can tell V But the 
past admits no change. Its realities remain unaffected by 
the present, imaltered by images of the future. There we 
rest upon the solid basis of experience, not upon the illu- 
sions of the imagination. But history becomes doubly in- 
teresting to us when it relates the experience of our indi- 
vidual ancestors ; of those whose blood flows in our veins ; 
who reared the successive generations that lived and died 
until they at length gave to us that life which had l)een 
transmitted to them. 

Under such revelations of history we feel our souls 
thrilling with interest in the relation of every incident of 
the past. We sympathit^e with our fathers. We feel the 



cold blast that sent its sliiveiiuig power upon their venera- 
ble, unsheltered heads. We feel the burning sun that 
poured its tierce, relentless rays upon them. We tremble 
for them amid their dangers. We triumph with them in 
success. We hope with them in their anticipations. We 
lose our consciousness of the present. We seem to feel 
the spirits of the departed animating our own bosoms ; and 
as we live in their experience almost say, "Tlie souls of our 
fathers live in us." ~ 

Our ancestors were the Puritans of England. We can- 
not doubt as to their character, their purposes, or their 
motives. England had just awoke from her religioiis 
slumbers. The principles of civil and religious liberty 
were forcing their way upon the mind of the nation. The 
royal houses of Plantagenet and Tudor, of York and Lan- 
caster, had passed away. Kings were seen to be mortal. 
Their right to prescribe a religion for the people began to 
be denied. Their Divine right to govern began to be 
doubted. Resistance to arbitrary imposition and authority 
was openly proclaimed. The right of the people to a con- 
stant representation in the government was asserted ; and 
civil w^ar rolled over the fair field of their native England. 

Amid the strife of battle and the din of murderous con- 
flict our fathers left their country — sought this unexplored, 
unsettled Western World, — trusting here to hold unmo- 
lested their religion and their liberties, and transmit them 
to a peaceful, happy posterity in the wilds of their neAV 
abode. They left in the age of John Hampden and Mil- 
ton, and soon after their arrival came the news of the Roy- 
al overthrow. The same year that saw the triumph of lib- 
erty in Great Britain, and consigned Charles Stuart, its 
monarch, to the l)lock, saAV the settlement of this, our 
native town. 



This town was purchased as far oastward as Montauk 
in 1648 by Theai)liilus Eatou, Governor of the Colony of 
New Haven, and Edward Hoi)kins, Governor of the Colony 
of Connecticut, for the benefit of the original settlers, and 
was assigned to them by Eaton and Hopkins in the spring 
of 1651, in consideration of the sum of 4'30, 4s, 8d sterl- 
ing."- 

Gardiner's Island had been purchased and was settled 
by Lion Gardiner in 1689. Southampton and Southold 
were settled in 1640. 

At what precise date the first inhabitants of this town 
planted themselves upon the soil is not known. It was 
probably in the spring or summer of 1649. The earliest 
instrument 1 find on record indicating their residence here 
is a letter of attorney- from John Hand in relation to some 
lands in Stanstede, in Kent, England ; it bears date Oct. 
8l8t, 1649. 

As many of the inhabitants came from Maidstone, in 
the county of Kent, in England, they first called their 
plantation by that name. As early as 1650, and within a 
year from the first settlement it is menticmed on the Rec- 
ords by its present name. 

At the time of the first occupation of this new territory 
the Indians were numerous, and situated on every side. 
On the East, at Montaukett, the Royal Wyandanch swayed 
the sceptre. On the North, at Shelter Islaud, his l)rother, 
Poggatacut, ruled the tribe of Manhassetts ; and a third 
brother, by the name of Nowedinah presided over the des- 
tinies of the Shinecock tribe. Little or no intercourse was 
held betAveen East-Hampton and Southampton through 
the unbroken wilderness which intervened. 

What a bold and dariug ste]) was that: to leave behind 

*ror a copy of this deed see appeudix. 



the comforts, the conTPEierices and the jots of their DatiTe 
land ; leave far, and perhaps forever, their friends so dear 
to them. Forsake their homes and their firesides, and, ar- 
rived at Salem, at Boston, or Lynn, to leave still behind 
those flourishiuo lo^vns and bend their stei)s hitherward. 
And here, in the dark and gloomy Avilderness, in silence 
unbroken save by the Indian war-whoop, by the hideous 
cry of the wild beast, or the solemn and majestic roar of 
Father Ocean, take up their final earthly resting-place and 
home. 

Interesting to us Mould it be did we know more of the 
character and circumstances of those first few families. 
AVe should like to paint them as they were, in life and be- 
ing — what undaunted resolution — what tirm religious trust 
spoke upon their countenances and told of the soul within. 
What high purpose^;, what sublime hopes lighted up their 
eyes and swelled their bosoms — what intellectual cultiva- 
tion sat upon their brows V We should like to set before 
you their stahvart forms and iron frames, but their bones 
have long since reposed in the cemetery of their own se- 
lection, and no painters canvass secures their earthly form. 
The first settlers of East-Hampton were 

John Hand. John Stretton, Sen'r 

Thomas Talmage, Jk. Egbert Bond, 

Daniel Howe, Kobeet Eose, 

Thomas Thomson, Joshua Barnes, 

John Mulford. 
The following became very early their associates : 
Thomas Osborn, Nathaniel Bishop, 

William Hedges, William Barnes, 

,,Ealph Dayton, Lion Gardiner, 

Thomas Chatfield, John Osborne, 

Thomas Osborn, Jr. Jeremiah Vealb, 



William Ftthian, John Millee, 

EicHARD Brookes, Charles Earner, 

William Simonds, Stephen. Hakd, 

Samuel Belknap, Thomas Baker, 

Samuel Parsons, Ana^jas^ Conklin, 

Joshua Gaelicke, Eichard Shaw, 

Fulke Davis, Jeremiah Meacham. 

The first six of the original nine settlers came from 
Lynn, Massachusetts, to this place. The father of Tal- 
mage was a large proprietor of Lynn and was made a free- 
man of that toAvn previous to 1638. Howe had been a sea 
captain and had lived in Salem, Massachusetts ; in 1650 
he sold his possessions in East-Hampton to Thomas Ba- 
ker, and removed to England. Hand was from the hamlet 
of Stanstede, in the County of Kent, England. Thomson 
came here from New London. Barnes and Mulford ar- 
rived at Salem, from England, but a short time previous, 
it is said. It has, however, been a tradition in the Mul- 
ford family that he came to East-Hampton from South- 
ampton. Perhaps he made but a short stay in Southamp- 
ton. Ralph Dayton came from England to Boston and 
thence here. Thomas Baker came from Milford, Connect- 
icut, in 1650 ; he was an inhabitant of that town as early 
as 1639. Thomas James and his father came to Charles- 
town, in Massachusetts, in 1632 ; they afterwards went to 
New-Haven, Connecticut, and Thomas James removed from 
thence to East-Hampton as early as 1651; and became their 
first Minister of the Gospel. The father of Charles Barnes 
resided in Eastwinch, in the County of Norfolk, in Eng- 
land ; he died in 1663, leaving property to his son. Charles 
Barnes was the first schoolmaster. Joshua Garlicke was 
the miller. The family of Eithian have a tradition that 
their first ancestor in this town came from Southampton. 



The family of Schellenger are mentioned in the Town Eec- 
ords as early as 1657. Thoma.s Edwards is mentioned as 
early as 1651. Lion Gardiner removod from Gardiner's 
Island to this town in 1653. 

Few facts in relation to the family history of our early 
ancestors remain. The hand of time has moved on with 
sure, resistless progress, and left on record but feAv memor- 
ials of the dead. 

It is said that of tlie first settlers : 
Ralph Dayton died in 1657. 

John Hand and Lion Gardiner in 1663. 

Robert Rose, who was the father of Thomas Rose 

of Southampton, must have died previous to 1665. 

as appears by the record of conveyance of 

his lands, by his son Thomas, to George 

Miller, dated 19th Dec, 1665. 
William Hedges died about 1674. 

Many of our ancestors, however, lived to a very great age. 
Their simple habits, correct life, and perhaps an originally 
strong constitution lengthened out their days far beyond 
the ordinary life of man. 

Richard Stretton died June 7th, 1698 

William Barnes, Sen'r Dec'r 1st, 1698. 

Joshua Garlicke, aged about 100 years March 7tL, 1700. 
Richard Shaw Oct'r 18th, 1708. 

Thomas Osborne, aged 90 years Sept. 12th, 1712. 

Robert Dayton, a sou of Ralph Dayton, aged 

84 years April 16th, 1712. 

Samuel Parsons, aged 84 years J^^ly 6th, 1714, 

Steven Hedges, a son of William Hedges, 

lacking 6 months of 100 years old July 7th, 1734. 
He must have been familiar with the origin of this town, 
and with its history for at least 85 years. 



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Joseph Osborn, (a son of Thomas Osborn, one of the first 
settlers,) died here, in this Temple of our fathers, while wor. 
shiping, a little more than one hundred years since. The 
following is a literal copy of the record of his death as con- 
tained in the Eecords of the Rev. Nathaniel Huntting, the 
then minister of the town : 

" Oct. 2nd, 1743 :— Joseph Osborn, son of Tho's Osborn 
deceased, sunk down and died in ye Meeting House just after 
morning prayer was begun, a quarter after ten, aged almost 
83 years. He never spake a word but expired at once." 

The first inhabitants of this toAvn settled in the Southern 
part of the main street and on ©aeh side of what is now Town 
Pond. At that time however there Avas no collection of wa- 
ter, and a swamp or marsh covered the centre of the street. 
A small rivulet or drain communicated with and ran into 
the swamp from the North. 



The following are the 
names of those who lived up- 
on the East side of the street, 
commencing with the South- 
ern extremity and succeeding 
in the following order : 

William Hedges, 

Jeremiah Meacham, 

George Miller, 

Thomas James, 

Lion Gardiner, 

Thomas Chatfield, 

Robert Dayton, 

John Osborn, 

Benjamin Price, 

William Edwards, 

John Edwards, 

Nathan Birdsall, 

Samuel Parsons, 

William Barnes, 

Nathaniel Bishop. 



The following are a few of 
those who lived upon the 
West side, without any ref- 
erence to order, it being dif- 
ficult to locate them. 

Jeremiah Daily, 

Andrew Miller, 

John Hand, 

John Stretton, 

Robert Bond, 

Thomas Baker, 

William Fithian, 

Joshua Garlicke, 

Richard Brooke, 

Thomas Talmage, 

Stephen Hand, 

John Mulford, 

Richard Stretton, 

Stephen Osborn. 



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Tlie church stood near the old hnryiBg-grourid or on its 
site, on tlie east side of th« street. A highway ran from 
near where the church now stands, over the swamp east, and 
afterwards was the travelled road to the village of Amagansett. 

Their houses were small, with thatched roofs. The Church 
was of similar dimensions — thatched roof and boarded sides. 

The original allotments of land were thirty-four in 
number. The lots were from eight to twelve acres each, 
laid out between the street and Hook Pond, and the Swamp 
East and what was then common laud West, (prohahly noio 
fJie higJnvay.) The Mill stood at the South end of the 
town and gave the name to the lane which leads to the 
beach. It was then called "Mill-Lane."* 

Thomas Baker kept the Tavern or Ordinary, Before the 
Church was erected the meetings were held at his house, for 
which he was to have " the sum of £0 Is. 6d. each Sabbath." 

The licensing of Baker to keep Tavern in 1654 is thus 
concisely expressed upon the Records : 

" June 29th, 1654. — It is ordered that Thomas Baker 
shall keep the Ordinary." — Town Eecords, book 2, p. 33. 

Perhaps nothing is more conspicuous in the character of 
our forefathers than their untiring energy, activity and en- 
terprize. Having arrived at the chosen place of their res- 
idence they set themselves at work with ceaseless industry 
and perseverance until their object had been accomplished. 
While they were busied in laying the foundations of gov- 
ernment, education and morals they were equally active in 
their daily toil and occupation. 

As early as 1653 they allotted and improved the North- 
west and Acabonac meadows. They soon subdued a great 
extent of wilderness and brought it under cultivation. As 
early as 1653 nearly all the arable land in the Eastern and 

*This Mill was driven by cattle. 



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Western Plains, a circnit of Wo mikf^, was under Fome de- 
gree of cultivation. 

The first settlers, (althougli undoubtedly well educated 
men, as their records and laws most equivocallj prove,) 
"^were chiefly faimers. They suffered many inconveniences 
for the want of mechanics. They sent to Southold for a 
weaver ; to Huntington for a Llacksmith, and to Wethers- 
field for a carpenter. The invitation to the Aveaver is on 
record in the folloAving words : 

" Februar}- 2ud, 1653.— It is Ordered yt there shall bee 
an invitation sent to Goodman Morgan of Southold, if hee 
will come and live liere and weave all the Townswork, hee 
shall come in free from all former charges and the Town 
will give him 5 and break him up 2 ackres of Land."- — See 
Town Records, book 2, p. 31. 

The country afforded a wide range and abundant pasture 
for cattle, and hence large flocks were kept. The first stock 
consisted of goats ; afterwards large herds of cows and horses 
were maintained. They were driven out in the morning by 
the shepherd and back at night. The whole town's-herr* 
were pastured together, and each one took his turn in sue 
cession in tending them. 

Among their other pursuits was that of whaling. The} 
very early made this a source of profit as well as amusemeni 
Doubtless it was congenial to their bold and a4venturou 
spirits. I find the following early reference to that business . 

"November the 6tli, 1651. — It was Ordered that Goodmai 
Mulford shall call out ye Town by succession to loke out f oy 
whale."— Book No. 2, page 20. 

Their difficulties were oftentimes occasioned by coufiic* 
ing claims to shares of the whales taken by them. In 165;' 
upon a difficulty of that kind they " Ordered that the share 
of whale now in controversie between the Widow Talma£0 



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and Thomas Talmage shall be divided between them as the 
lot is."— Book No. 2, p. 30. 

Even in our day we have heard the old and venerable fa- 
thers speak, with the enthusiasm and fire of other days, of the 
sports and perils of the whale chase and of their success. 
And tradition still informs us that Abigail Baker, who was 
married in 1702 to Daniel Hedges, the first settler of the name 
in Sagg, in her day in riding from East-Hampton to Bridge- 
Hampton, saw thirteen whales on the shore at that time 
between the two places. "Whaling sufi'ered sad misfortunes 
in that day : 

"Feb. 24, 1719. — This day a whale-boat being alone the 
men struck a whale and she coming under ye boat in part 
staved it, and tho ye men were not hurt with the whale yet, 
before any help came to them four men were tired and chill- 
ed and fell off ye boat and oars to which they hung and 
were drowned, viz.: Henry Parsons, William Schellinger, 
Junior, Lewis Mulford, Jeremiah Conkling, Junr." — Records 
of Rev. Nathaniel Huntting. 

We may discover the wisdom and foresight of our ances- 
tors in establishing a free and popular Government for them- 
selves — in laying deep and broad the foundations of their little 
commonAvealth upon the basis of education and good morals. 

The Government of the town was vested in the People. 
They, assembled at their Town Meetings, had all power and 
all authority. They elected officers ; constituted courts ; al- 
lotted lands ; made laws ; tried difficult and important causes, 
and from their decision there was no appeal. This Town 
Meeting, or " General Court," as it was sometimes called, 
probably met once a month. Every freeholder was required 
to be present at its meetings and take upon himself a part in 
the burdens of government ; all delinquents were fined 12d. 
for non attendance at each meeting. It is almost impossible 



12 

to specify the numerous and diverse acts of authority and 
orders made and done by this assembly. It provided school 
teachers and made regulations for the education of the youth. 
It hired the minister ; assessed his salary by tax upon the pro- 
perty of individuals. "■ It built churches, and provided for the 
payment of building in the same manner. It admitted or 
excluded inhabitants or proposed settlers from its society and 
privileges. No person was allowed to buy or sell lands with- 
out the license and consent of the town. Hired laborers were 
liable to be excluded from the bounds and hospitality of the 
town. Their laws were made not only for the purpose of 
establishing order and securing justice, but they every where 
breathe a deep solicitude to prevent disputes and difficulty. 
The following is an illustration. 

" 19th April, 1659. — It is Ordered that every man shall sett 
the two letters for his name at each end of his fence, in large 
letters, on the inside of the Post, above the upper Raile, upon 
penalty," &c. — Book No. 2, p. 33. 

The only other Court constituted by the original inhabi- 
tants was a Court of Three Justices, sometimes called the 
" Court of the Three Men." The first three Justices who 
composed this Court were John Mulford, Thomas Baker, 
and Robert Bond. Thomas Talmage Jr. was the first Re- 
corder or Secretary. 

This Court met " at eight o'clock in the morning on the 
2nd day of the 1 st week in every month." It had cognizance 
of affairs of minor importance, and in cases of danger had 
power to call a special Meeting of the Town. It tried causes 
where the matter in controversy did not exceed five pounds. 
It remitted fines under that amount. An appeal might be 

*The salary of Mr. Jaiiios, the Mrst miuister, was £50 per anuum, and 
afterwards £60 ; besides many very valuable privileges, and au exemp- 
tion from taxation. 

The salary ©f the Schoolmaster was £33 per annum. 



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liad from the decision of this Court to the General Court or 
Town Meeting, as ap})ears from the following order : 

" Oct'r 1652. Ordered if any man be aggrieved by an}- 
thing that is done by the men in antliority that he shall have 
libertie to make his appeal to tlie next General Court, or when 
the men are assembled together on the public occasions." 

An illustration at once of their tender regard for their rights 
and their distrust of any authority irresponsible to the people. 
No set of men ever knew better than they that authority 
should never be delegated l\y the people " upon the pre- 
sumption that it will not be abused.'" 

Besides these three Judges their only officers were a Sec- 
retary or Recorder and a Constable. The Constable was the 
executive officer. He lield an imyiortant station — was gen- 
erally a man of some conseqaence. He presided as moder- 
ator in their Town Meetings. 

The Records of this Court still remain. They are written 
in a very singular hand, by a skilful penman ; but those an- 
tique hieroglyphics defy the curiosity of any but the most 
patient and persevering investigator. 

The reports or records, of adjudged cases are perhaps the 
best illustrations of the habits, character and severe morals 
of our fathers that any where exist. They gave all a hear- 
ing. The Indian or foreigner, citizen or stranger, rich or 
poor were admitted to their courts and received at their 
hands the same equal justice. 

In the year 1658 Wyandanch, Sachem of Montaukett, 
Plaintift", prosecuted Jeremy Daily, Defendant, for an injury 
done to his " ureal rromoir.'' The case was tried by the 
" three men, ' and the Jury in the cause rendered a verdict 
of ten shillings as damages for the plaintiffi- 

At the same time (hat the people^ provided for an appeal 

*Furau acc-ount ul' Ihis t.iial st^e Aj)jii"iiilix. 



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to themselves from the decision of the Special Court of the 
three men, they nobly sustained their magistrates in the dis- 
charge of their duty. They gave them repeated tokens of 
their confidence ; often conferred upon them important trusts, 
and protected them from insult and injury. As early as 
1651 they passed the following order : 

" Nov. 17th, 1651. The 3 men chosen for ToAvn Officers 
are ordered to sett out the place for a Meeting-House, and 
they shall have power to marrie during the year." 

The General Court upon another occasion when an indi- 
vidual had derided and insulted their magistrates, passed 
the following order : 

Oct'r 3d 1655. It is ordered that William Simons for his 
provoking speeches to the 3 men in authoritie, being a dis- 
turbance to them in their proceedings, that he shall forth- 
with pay 5 shillings, which is to be disposed of to make a 
paire of stocks." — Book 2, p. 39. 

While our ancestors admitted the equal rights of all with- 
in their commonity, they deemed themselves as having also 
a perfect right to exclude any from their number who were 
loose in their morals and dangerous to the well being of the 
young. Nothing can exceed the tender solicitude Avith which 
they watched over the moral and spiritual interests of their 
rising village. In 1651 they ordered : 

" That Goodman Meggs' lot shall not be laid out for James 
Still to go to work on, and that ho shall not stay here." — 
Book 2, p. 21. 

And again — 

" East-Hampton. April 7th, 1657. — It is agreed l)y tlie 
voate of the town that the bargain yt Goodman Davis, made 
with Goodman Birdsall in selling of his lands is annulified 
and not to stand." — Book 2, p. 44. 

At the same time they designed to take no undae advan- 



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tage (iver others iu the exercise of their {luthoritj. On the 
decease of Nathaniel Foster, a son of Christopher Foster of 
Soiithanipton, they passed tlie following : 

" The l^eginniug of October 1660. — At our Meeting, upon 
Goodman Foster's request, lie was accepted to possess as an 
inhabitant, his sonne Nathaniel's lott, to live upon it liim- 
selfe or put in such an inhabitant as the town should accept 
of, and liee to defray all cliarges." — Book 2, p. (S5. 

This toAvn at first took its laws from the Colony of Connec- 
ticut, selecting such as it deemed applicable to its jDeculiar 
circumstances, and moulding them to suit its wants. Tlie 
laws were chosen by them, not forced or imposed upon them 
by any superior. They therefore exhibit the living, breathing- 
spirit of the people; the unintiuenced and spontaneous 
choice of their own minds — -clothed in the quaint language, 
and in some measure partaking of the spirit of the times. 

They provided in 1656 that slander should be punished 
"by a fine not above £5 as tlie men inautlioritie see meet.'" 
— i3ook 2, p. 45. 

At the same period they enacted a hiw against personal 
violence in the following words : 

" It is ordered yt whosoever shal rise up in anger against 
his neighbor and strike him, he shall forthwith pay ten shil- 
lings to ye town and stand to the censure of the Court and if 
in smiting he shall hurt or wound another he sliall pay for 
the cure, and also for liis time that lie is tliereby liindered.' 
—Book 2, p. 45. 

It would seem that they felt deeply and most solemnly the 
obligation of an oath, and detested and despised perjury as 
an abominable crime, richly meriting the most severe punish- 
ment. Thoy enacted the following law aoainst that crime : 

" Febriiarie 12th, 1656. — It is ordei^ul yt whosoever shall 
rise up as a false witness against any man to testifie yt which 



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is wrong, there shall be done to him as he had thought to 
have done unto his neighbour, whether it be to the taking 
away of Life, Limbe, or Goods." — Book 2, p. 45. 

Another striking fact to be borne in mind — speaking 
volumes for the good principles of our forefathers, and their 
dealings with others — is that they never had any serious 
difficulty with the Indians. Doubtless this was partly ow- 
ing to the friendly regard of Wyandanch, the mighty Sa- 
chem of the Island. That he used his great name as a 
shield for the prevention of difficulty and bloodshed is well 
known. He had acted an important part in assisting, as 
an ally, the early settlers of New England in their war 
against the Pequots, and acquired a hard and well earned 
fame by his martial achievements in that deadly contest. 

Worthy was the barbarian Chieftain of an immortal 
fame ! Worthy rival of his white compeers in the generous 
and kindly impulses that ennoble and adorn the human 
soul.* 

The powerful intercession of Lion Gardiner, {that sterling 
Puritan,) no doubt often had its influence in averting threat- 
ened and impending difficulties with the Indians. 

But, be it ever remembered, that every foot of soil which 
their labors redeemed from nature's wilduess, and made to 
smile with the luxuriant harvest, was fairly purchased by 
our ancestors of the Aborigines of the forest. The stipu- 
lated price was honestly paid. The Indians themselves 
bore the highest testimonials of their kindness and hospi- 
tality, and gratefully acknowledged it in some of their con- 
veyances to the whites. 

After the tribe had been almost exterminated in the 
fatal battle on Block Island ; they came about tlie year 
1660, from Montauk and resided upon the parsonage at 

*Wyaudanclx died about 1659. 



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the south end of the Town Street, under the immediate 
protection of the whites. Their burying ground, made in 
the parsonage at tliat time, witliin a few years might have 
been seen. 

Truth, however, demands the acknowledgement that there 
was once a time when much danger was apprehended from 
the Indians. In the year 1653 the Narraghansetts and oth- 
er tribes had endeaA'ored to form an alliance of all their 
forces against the whites. They attempted to seduce Wy- 
andanch from his friendship to them. With his tribe they 
partly succeeded. A murder was committed by the Indians 
at Southampton, and they assumed a hostile attitude. 

The records of this period show that our ancestors shrank 
not from the crisis. They never dreamed of deserting 
their post. Providence, as they thought, had led them to 
this spot as their home. Wild and savage as it was, they 
had planted their feet upon its soil — erected their rude hab- 
itations — begun their struggle in subduing the wilderness ; 
and, where providence had led them, there, under God, they 
would remain and abide like men the destiny that awaited 
them. They were not regardless of the danger. They set a 
watch of two by night and one by daj-. They gave power 
to the "three men" to call a Town Meeting at a half hour's 
notice. They sent to Connecticut Eiver for " a firkin of 
powder and shot equivalent," as their order expressed it. 
They never thought however of abandoning the Sanctuary. 
Their worship must not ceaso. The Sabbath morning 
breaks. The sun casts his rays upon the scene. The pri- 
meval forest rises in majesty, unrufrted by the breeze. The 
virgin fields smile with the harvest. From many a habita- 
tion the curling smoke ascends. How quiet, how peaceful 
that Sabbath morn appears, as it illuminates the little vil- 
lage. The morning prayer has been offered under every 



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roof, — l)iit still uo sound of busy life or labor breaks upon 
the ear. The hours pass on — higher the sun ascends. At 
length the sound of the Avarlike drum rises from the front 
of their little church ; it sends farther and farther its peal- 
ing notes,- — it is the summons to prepare for the services of 
the Sanctuary. An hour elapses and again at the drum's 
beat the villagers pour from their dwellings, — infancy, man- 
hood, and tottering age — matron and maiden, all throng to 
the Church. The sun flashes upon the armor they bear. 
Thomas James, their Pastor, follows — small in stature, 
sprightly and undaunted in step and l^eariug — and takes his 
seat to minister the word of Life. There sit our ancestors, 
solemn, anxious, hopeful, and praise and worship the Most 
High, with their arms and warlike equipments by their side. 
We see them in their devotions. We hear them say — "We 
are troubled on every side, yet not distressed — we are per- 
plexed, but not in despair — persecuted, but not forsaken — 
cast down, but not destroyed." 

When, ye spirits of our sires ; when shall we see the like 
again ? — such wisdom in the council ? — such valor in the 
Held ? 

This, however, was only an alarm, although its aspect 
was for a time so serious. And it is believed, and to the 
honor of all be it said, that Indians and whites never drew 
from each other a drop of blood in murderous contest, from 
the date of the earliest settlement to our present peaceful 
times. 

It was under the influence of such energ}' of character, 
purity of morals, wise precaution and forethought for the 
future, that this little settlement, under providence, pros- 
pered and grew on every side. It spread with great rapid- 
ity. Adjoining villages soon rose up, almost in rivalry of 
their more venerable and early home. 



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It was but a short period after the first settlement of the 
town before some families colonized the villages of Wains- 
cott and Amagansett. As early as 1670 John Osl)orn ex- 
changed his lands here, with the town and with individuals, 
and procured a tract of land bounded " Soutli by the Ocean 
and East by Wainscott Pond." It is probable that about 
this time Waiuscott and Amagansett were settled. And it 
is said that as early as 1700 those villages had attained 
nearly if not quite their present size. 

Wainseott was originally settled by the families of Hand, 
Hopping and Osborn. Amagansett is said to have been 
settled originally by the families of Hand, Coukliug, Schel- 
leucjer and Barnes. 



CHAPTER II. 



_;\ddpQss of 184y, eontiquQcl. 
Tin' Svtfh'iiient adoptf; the Coinhhudion (did Laws of (Jonneci- 
!rnf, p. 20. Wiic]icr(iff,p. 2H. The (JhiircJies, p. 2.3. The 
Miiiisfers. The Spij-lf of Frerihun, p. 2f). The Pefiti<mfor 
rejtrcRenldlkm hi Govern iiieni, p. 2(1. The Patent of 168G, 
p. 2S. Samuel ]\Ldf>rd, j>. 20. The BevoJnt!on, p- 31- 
(Japt. Jidiii Dayton, p. S-S. Cd'ndon Academy, }). HT- 
Thotajhts Snggefited, p. Hi. (Jonchisidii, j>. 3!)-4S. 



This Town existed as au Independent Settlement or Plan- 
tation nntil 1657, a period of eit^lit years. In that year it 
united with the Colony of Connecticut in an alliance for the 
purpose of counsel and defence. Southampton had joined 
the same confederac3^ Southold was attached to the colo- 
ny of New-Haven. 

Our fathers often sought counsel and advice of these neigh- 
bouring toAvns in difiicult cases. Their attachment to New- 
England was exceedingly strong. With the Dutch inlialii- 
tants of New-York they liad less alhuity and intercourse. 
When the Dutch, in 1664. surrendered their Colony of New- 
York to tlie English, the whole Island was claimed by the 
Duke of York as included in his grant and under his Juris- 
diction. And after unavailing remonstrances against it, in 
despite of their entreaties they came under the Duke's Gov- 
(U-nment aiid formed a part of his Colony. From that time 
they remained under the jurisdicti<m of the Government of 
the (Jolony of New-York. 

After the revolution of these Americ;i,n States, Gardiner's 
Island, which until then had remained au independent manor 



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or Lordship, was annexed to and has since remained a part 
of the Town of East-Hampton. 

Tlie limits of an address forbid my dwelling as minutely 
upon the minor traits of character and the liabits of our an- 
cestors as might otherAvise be desirable. 

It will now bo my chief object as I trace the history of the 
Town to bring more vividly before the mind the ardent 
love of liberty and devotion to their religion, which our fore- 
fathers have ever manifested. 

For the first few years it docs not appear that our ances- 
tors had any written Constitution or compact as a founda- 
tion for their Government. They probably lived together 
under the tacit and implied contract of a people boujid only 
by the great principles of natural equity, justice and reason, 
aided by their knowledge of divine revelation. 

In 165-1, however, and on the 18th of September, they 
passed the following resolve : 

" It is ordered that there shall be a copie of the Connect- 
icut Combination drawn forth as is convenient for us, and 
yt all men shall set to their hands." — Book 2. p. 32. 

Their constitution was copied accordingly from the i)ie- 
amble of their model. The} added to the original, however, 
the last quarter, referring to the obligations of conscience, 
and the covenant to stand by their officers. The following 
was their covenant or constitution . 

East-Hampton, October 24, 1G54. 
Forasmuch as it has Pleased the Almighty God by the 
wise dispensation of his providence, so to Order and Dis- 
pose of things that we, the Inhabitants of East-Hampton 
are now dwelling together ; the word of God requires that 
to maintain the Peace and Union of such a people there 
should be an Orderly and Decent Government established 
according to God — to Order and Dispose as Occasion shall 
require : — We Do therefore associate and conjoin ourselves 
to be one Town or Corporation ; and Do for ourselves and 



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successors, aud such as shall be adjoined to us at any time 
hereafter, enter into combination and confede) ation togeth- 
er to maintain and preserve the Purity ofUie Gospel of our 
Lord Jesus Christ, which we now possess, as also the Dis- 
cipline of the Church, which, according to the Truth of said 
Gospel, is now practised among us. As also in our civil 
aftairs to be guided and Governed by such Laws and Orders 
as shall be made according to God, and which by vote of 
the Major Part shall be in force among us. [Furthermore 
we do engage ourselves that in all votes for choosing Offi- 
cers or making Orders that it be according to Conscience 
and our best Light. And Also we do engage ourselves by 
this combination to stand to and maintain the authority of 
the several Officers of the Town in their Determination and 
actions according to their Orders and Laws that either are 
or shall be made, not swerving therefrom.*] In Witness 
whereof, each accepted Inhabitant set to our hand." 

Their recognition of the " Providence " of " Almighty 
God," and acknowledgment of their obligation to obey the 
requisitions of his word, are too conspicuous to demand our 
notice Their determination to be governed by such Laws 
and Orders as were passed by vote of " the Major Part " 
" among us," bespeak as clearly their understanding of the 
superior right of the majority of the people ; and their en- 
gagement that " in all votes for choosing officers or making 
orders " " it be according to conscience and our best light," 
reflects as from a mirror, the high sense of moral obligation 
which pervaded them. 

The pursuits of public and of private life — the affairs of 
utmost or ordinary importance were to be conducted accord- 
ing to " Conscience." What a lesson to the people of our 
day did they leave on record two centuries ago. When will 
their descej dants enter into the affairs of government and 
of public life, discharging their duties according to " Con- 



'^The Hues inclosed iu brackets are the part added. 



23 

science " — when disoAvn the principle that a Christian can- 
not discharge l]is high duties as a citizen and elector in a 
free country, without contamination from the pervading cor- 
ruption '? Why slumbers the spirit of our fathers amid our 
fathers' home? 

Their religion was free, comparatively, from the errors 
and superstition of the day. In the year 1657 complaint 
was made to the magistrates of the Town that " Goodwife 
Garlicke " had practised witchcraft. An investigation of 
the charge was had, but the people finally concluded to send 
her to Hartford for trial. Perhaps they were distrustful of 
their skill and knowledge of Witchcraft. Enough appears 
upon the records to show that the " Goodwife " had many 
and powerful friends. Lion Gardiner strenuously main- 
tained her innocence — Whether any further order was made 
in her case does not appear. It is highly creditable to them 
that amid the prevalent belief and superstitions of the day, 
entertained ;dike by the ignorant and the learned — the King 
and the People — this was the only case of accusation for 
Witchcraft. It is prol)able nothing further was ever done 
in the complaint than as above stated."'^' 

It has already been seen that as early as 1651 they took 
measures for erecting a church. That church was enlarged 
in 167« ; and again, after some difference of opinion, it was 
enlarged in 1698. The present church was erected in 1717 ; 
was remodelled and repaired in 1822. 

The illustrious succession of Ministers who flourished for 
the first 150 years in this town, are too widely known, and 
too familiar to us all to require enlargement here. 

*The conduct of Goodwife Garlicke was not such as to disarm and 
quiet suspicion. IIpou lior oxaniinatioii it was, aiuony otlier things, 
proved that site had used various herbs to bewitch with ; that slie had 
said she had no objcctiou to bethought a witcli, and liad said she " had 
as good please th(^ Devil as anger him." 



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The historian has already recorded the genius, originali- 
ty, and resolution that lived in the character of Thomas 
James, the first semi-centeuarian Pastor of this town. The 
learning, ability, and devotion of NathanmLJBuntting, the 
second semi-centenarian Pastor. 

The tlurd Pastor, for a like period, the Eev'd Samuel Buell, 
D. D., was probably the cause and author of the erection of 
Clinton Academy. He lives upon the historians' pages, — 
lives in the remembrances of his venerable survivors. His 
sound judgment, clear perception, vivid fancy, impressive 
power and manner, have left their influence behind him. 

The fourtJi Pastor, the Eev'd Lyman Beecher, D. D., is 
known by fame in every land. We send up our prayers that 
this venerable spiritual warrior may yet be able, for many 
a long year, to wea* and wield the armor of his manhood's 
prime, so well and often proved. 

We shrink from our honoured position, as speaker of the 
day, when we remember that forty-four years since he stood 
up here in the maturity of his genius, and the fire of his 
eloqence, and drew, in living lines, the character and history 
of our forefathers. Happy alike in the achievements they 
had won and in him who spoke their praise. 

The ffth Pastor, the Eev'd Ebenezer Philips has passed 
from this earthly stage. His solemn, deliberate, clear ad- 
dress, replete with truth and doctrine, are among the re- 
membrances of our boyhood days. 

The sijcth Pastor, the Rev'd Joseph D. Condit, mild, ten- 
der, and pathetic, is also deceased. His child-like spirit 
fled to the children's home on high. 

The seventh Pastor, theRev'd Samuel E. Ely, supplied this 
Pulpit for about nine years. He removed some years since 
on account of declining health. 

The ninth Pastor, the Eev'd Samuel Huntting, stood up 



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here for a little while to minister to this People, at that altar 
where a hundred and fifty years before, his honored ances- 
tor had kindled and fed the holy altar's flame. He rose, 
and, quickly struck by the fatal arrow, fell, and his spirit 
joined in high communion with his ascended fathers.* 

We now call your attention to the patriotism of our an- 
cestors ; to their adherence to free institutions, and the res- 
olute, unflinching tenacity with which they maintained their 
rights. 

As their religion was free, in a great degree, from super- 
stition and bigotry, so their principles of politics and gov- 
ernment were, comparatively, free from persecution and 
untolerance. 

When their country demanded their assistance, feeble and 
exposed as they were, they generously proffered it. They 
say — 

"June 29th, 1664. 

" Having considered the Letters that came from Keneti- 
cut, wherein we are required to assist the power of England, 
against the Dutch : we Doe think ourselves called to assist 
the sd Power." 

Subsequently, throughout their whole history, it does not 



*Tlic following list of Ministers, with the time of sottlemcut in East- 
Hampton, time of removal, decease, and age, is as complete as I have 
been able to compile. 

SETTLED. 

1. Thomas James, 1650 

2. Nathaniel Hxjntting, 1699 

3. Samuel Buell, D. D., 1746 
1. Lymam Beecheb, D. D. 1799 

5. Ebenezer Phillips, 1811 

6. Joseph D. Condit, 1830 

7. Samuel K. Ely, 1836 

8. Alexandek Bullions, 1846 

9. Samuel Huntting, 
The three years intcrveuiu 



kem^ved. 



1810 
1830 
1835 
1846 

1848 



DIED. 

1696 
1753 
1798 

1840 
1847 



1849 



AGBD. 

78 years. 
82 years, 
now livinj. 



27 years. 



1848 

between the decease of Mr. James and 
the settlement of Mr. Huntting, were supplied by a Mr. Jones. 

The Rev'd Samuel R. Ely was never settled here, but officiated as a 
stated supply. 



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appear that their country ever raised the cry for her sons 
to arm for battle, unheard by them. 

The Colony of New-Haven adopted a Covenant or Con- 
stitution excluding all who were not members of the Church 
from the privileges of Electors. Our fathers, disliking this 
narrow and exclusive spirit, joined the confederacy of Con- 
necticut, consisting of Hartford, Windsor, and Wethersfield, 
which admitted all their citizens to equal rights and privi- 
leges. 

The Eoyal Duke of York, by his deputized Governors* 
swayed the sceptre of government over the Colony of New- 
York, with arbitrary power. 

They oftentimes excluded the people altogether from 
choosing Representatives of their own to pass huvs in a 
General Assembly. Sometimes, after yielding to the popu- 
lar demand, they disobeyed the Assembly which they had 
chosen of their own arbitrary will. Hence the sympathy of 
our fathers with their early friends of Connecticut, and their 
attachment to the free and chartered Government of that 
Colony. Hence their earnest appeal in 1664 to that colony 
to continue them under their goverment and jurisdiction. 
Hence, in the same year, their determination not to pay 
their taxes to the Government of New-York. 

It was in June, 1682, at a General Training of the Militia, 
that they drew up and signed their petition to Anthony 
Brockholst, the then Governor of New-York. In this mem- 
orable petition they recite their grant and charter from Gov- 
ernor Nicolls, in 1666. They refer to the promises of 
Freedom and Liberty, then made to them when they received 
that Patent. And they go on to say — " But, may it Please 
your Honour to understand that since this time wee are de- 
prived and prohibited of our Birthright, Freedoms, and 
Privileges to which both wee and our ancestors were borne ; 



27 

although we haye neither forfeited them by any misconduct 
of ours, nor have we at any time been forbidden the due use 
and exercise of them, by command of our Gratious King, 
that we know of. And as yet neither we nor the rest of his 
Majesty's subjects uppon this Island have been at any time 
admitted since then, to enjoy a general and free Assembly 
of our Eepresentatives, as others of his Majestie's subjects 
have had the priviledge of. But Lawes and Orders have 
been imposed uppon us from time to time without our con- 
sent, (and therein we are totally deprived of a fundamental 
priviledge of our English Nation,) together with the obstruc- 
tion of Trafficke and Negotiation with others of his Majes- 
tie's subjects ; so that we are become very unlike other of 
his Majestie's subjects in all other colonies here in America, 
and cannot but much resent our grievances in this Respect, 
and Remain discouraged with Respect to the Settlement of 
ourselves and posteritie after us." 

They then go on to recite the payment of their taxes as a 
further reason why they were entitled to the privileges of 
a free assembly, which they declared to be one of the "Fun- 
damentall Lawes of England," and they conclude with the 
bold determination that if the Governor refused them their 
rights they would present to the throne itself their petition 
for redress. 

Thus, more than ninety years before the Declaration of 
American Independence, they proclaimed the free principles 
upon which it was based.* 

It is believed that no people in this country saw farther, 
or earlier than they, the correct principles of a Free Repre- 
sentative Government. None placed them upon the records 
before them. We wonder ! We admire the wisdom of our 
fathers. 



*See a copy of this petition In the Appendix. 



28 

In 1683 Governor Dongan, who succeeded Anthony Brock- 
hoist as Governor, landed on the east end of Long-Island. 
Upon his first arrival we are told he here heard the language 
of discontent and dissatisfaction. Perhaps he saw then, good 
reason to conclude as he declared in his report to the com- 
mittee of Trade, of 22nd February, 1G87, that " most part of 
the people of that Island, especially towards the east end, 
are of the same stamp with those of New-England. Refrac- 
tory and very loath to have any commerce with this Place 
to the great Detr'm't of his Ma'tys Revenue and riiin of our 
merchants." — Vide Doc. His. N. Y., p. 16(5. 

In page 151 of the same report he urges that Connecticut 
should be annexed to New-York, and says, " Wee found by 
experience, if that Place bee not annexed to that Government, 
it will bee impossible to make any thing considerable of his 
Ma'tys Customs and Revenues in Long-Island ; they carry 
away with't entering all our Oyles, which is the greatest part 
of what wee have to make returns of from this Place." 

These loud petitions of the people procured temporary 
relief. The General Assembly of the Representatives met 
in 1683, 1684, and 1685, when the Assembly was discontin- 
ued by the despotic mandate of Gov'r Dongan. 

In the year 1686 the present Town Patent was granted by 
Gov'r Dongan, confirming that of Gov'r Nicolls, and giving 
authority to the Trustees of the Town to purchase the yet 
unpurchased part of Montauk, which was efiected of the In- 
dians, and a conveyance given by them, dated July 25th, 1687. 
This conveyance covers all the land east of Fort-Pond, ex- 
tending to the Point. Thus, by various purchases, the Indian 
title to the lands was extinguished, and a final conveyance 
was taken from them in 1702-3, when a lease, not transferable, 
was executed to them, vesting in them the limited enjoyments 
of a certain part of their ancient inheritance, on which the 
few remaining families of the tribe now reside. 



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Thfi subsequent history of the town cannot be more clear- 
ly exhilnted than by reference to the life of the celebrated 
Samuel Mulford. 

Samuel Mulford was the eldest son of John Mulford was 

born in 1645 ; and for a period of twenty years, from 1700 
to 1720, represented tliis County in the Provincial Assembly. 
From his father he inherited the strong, reflecting mind ; the 
stern principles and unyielding determination of the early 
Puritans. He was attached to the Goyernment of Connec- 
ticut, and remonstrated against the annexation of the town 
to NeAv York. That Colony was then in the hands of the 
High-Church Episcopalians, and upon them alone the pat- 
ronage of Government bestowed its offices and honors. He 
watched the alnises of Government with a jealous eye, and 
no combatant ever maintained his post more unflinchingly 
than he. 

In the year 1716, the Assembly, sul)serviont to the wishes 
of Gov'r Hunter, ordered a speech of Mulford's to be put into 
iho liands of the Speaker. Mulford boldly published his 
sj)eech and circulated it. It denounced the corruption and 
governmental misrule of the finances — the usurpations in 
collecting the revenue, and its disbursement. The Governor 
commenced an oppressive and Itarrassing lawsuit against him 
in the Supreme court, whose judges he himself had appointed. 
Mulford was a farmer and not possessed of a large property. 
He had gained his estate and support by his daily toil ; and 
the House, in sympathy for him, on the 21st August, with 
their S]ieaker, attended the Governor, and presented to him a 
resolve which they liad passed, soliciting the discharge of 
Mulford from the suit. The suit was suspended, and Mul- 
ford was permitted to return liome. On his return here he 
resolved to petition the King in person, for redress. 

Among other grievances the towns of East Hampton and 



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Southampton complained bitterly of a duty of one-tenth on 
whale oil, exacted from them by the Governors of the Colo- 
ny. Whaling was to them an important interest, and Mul- 
ford desired to procure a bounty for its encouragement. 

He concealed his departure lest he should be arrested by 
the Governor — landed at Newport — walked to Boston, and 
embarked for the Court of St. James. He presented his 
memorial, which, it is. said, attracted much attention, and 
was read by him to the House of Commons, The tax on oil 
was " ordered to be discontinued," and Mulford returned 
home, trtumphant, at the age of 71 years.* 

Picture to yourself the homely apparel ; the simple man- 
ners ; the stern bearing ; the lofty, unquailing appearance 
of that self taught, high minded man, and you have a noble 
exhibition of what our ancestors were. 

Capt'n Mulford returned, took his seat in the House of 
Representatives, and again the old question of his speech 
was called up. Perhaps the Governor was stung by the suc- 
cess of Mulford, and his bold exposition in England, of his 
cupidity and injustice. The war was renewed with fiercer 
feeling than before. The compliant House called upon him 
to give the reasons for printing his speech. He gave them, 
^and withdraw, — a motion having been made and carried to 
that effect. Mulford had the honour of being expelled from 
the House. A new election Avas held to supply the vacancy, 
and the people, true to themselves, notwithstanding all the 
influence of power, patronage, and wealth, again elected 
Mulford as their representative, — an act worthy of them- 
selves and the champion of their cause. They were not to 
be bought, deceived, or terrified. 

♦Songs and rejoicings took place among the whaleoioii ol' Siiflolk 
County upon his arrival, on account of his having succeeded in getLiiig 
the King's share given up.— MSS. of J. Lyon Gardiner, dec'd. 



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111 the Auturaii of 1717 he again took liis seat in the House ; 
and again, alone waged the unequal contest in defence of the 
people. What was there in pride, pomp, power, pretension 
or station, that should deter him from exposing fraud or 
corruption wherever lie found it? 

In 1720 Governor Burnet succeeded Gov'r Hunter. And 
the bold denunciations of Capt'n Mulford, again drew down 
upon him the censure of the officers of Government. On the 
26th October, 1720 having refused to act with the old As- 
sembly, then in session, u]K)u the ground that a new one 
should have lieen chosen, and that the acting Assembly was 
unconstitutional, he was again expelled from the House. 

Thus, 50 years before tlie time of Wilkes, Capt'n Mulford 
ran the same career in America, with purer motives, and had 
been as nobly sustained by his constituents. 

Thus ended Capt'n Mulford's public life. His great age 
deterred him from farther services. He died August 21st, 
1725, aged almost 81 years. 

The very grievances which Mulford complained of were 
afterwards redressed by the King, and the people finally tri- 
umphed. Why slee]is his memory, unrecorded on the his- 
torians' page ? 

In the war ending in the conquest of Canada, in 1760 Cap- 
tains Elias Hand and Jonathan Baker of this town were en- 
gaged, commanding companies raised by them in their vicini- 
ty. They were both at tlie attack of Ticonderoga, by Gen- 
eral Abercromliie ; and were present, under General Amlierst, 
at tlie capture of Crown Point. At the close of the war they 
returned to their homes. 

At the very commencement of difficulty between Great 
Britain and these United States, this town sent her pledge 
to abide by the cause and interests of theic couutrj^meu. 
The Boston Port Bill was passed in March 1774, interdict- 



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ing all commerce witli tliat part. With reference to that 
we find the following proceeding : 

" At a meeting of the Inhabitants of East-Hampton, legally 
warned by the Trustees, June 17, '74 ; Eleazar Miller, Esq., 
Moderator. 

1st. Voted, That we will, to the utmost of our abilities, 
assert, and in a lawful manner,, defend the liberties and im- 
munities of British America. That we will co-operate with 
our Brethren in this Colony in such measures as shall appear 
best adapted to save us from the burdens we fear, and in a 
measure already feel, from the principles adopted by the 
British Parliament, respecting the Town of Boston in Par- 
ticular, and the British Colonies in North America in Gen- 
eral. 

2nd. Voted, That a non-importation agreement through 
the Colonies is the most likely means to save us from the 
present and future troubles. 

3d. Voted, That John Chatfield, Esq., Col. Abm. Gardi- 
ner, Burnett Miller, Stephen Hedges, Tho's Wickham, Esq., 
John Gardiner, Esq., and David Mulford be a Standing Com- 
mittee for keeping up a correspondence with the City of N. 
Y., and the Towns of this Colony, and if there is occasion, 
with other Colonies ; and that the}' transmit a copy of these 
votes to the eommittee of Correspondence for the City of N. Y. 

Voted, Unanimously, not one dissenting voice. 

BuENET Miller, Town Clerk" 

Some of the first and haviest blows struck in the war of 
our Independence, fell upon this town. 

"Whilst the British were at Boston their vessels occas- 
ionally carried oft' stock from Suffolk County." 

The Journals of the Provincial Congress contain the fol- 
lowing : 

" July 5th, '75. — The people of E. and S. Hampton pray 
Congress that Capt'n Hulbert's company, now raising for 
Schuyler's army, may remain to guard the Stock on the com- 
mon Lands of Moutauk, (2,000 cattle and 3 or 4,000 sheep,) 
from the ravages of the enemy." — "Jour. 75." 



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" July 31st, '75. — Congress allow Griffin and Hnlbert's 
companies to remain to guard Stock." — " Jour: 95." 

It appears from the Journal and correspondence of Capt'n 
Hulbert, that his Company was stationed at Shagwonnuck ; 
that they Avere supplied with arms, ammunition, and pro- 
visions, by the people of the town, through Burnet Miller 
and Stephen Hedges, their committee. And that on the 
7th, September, '75, the company marched off of Montauk, 
and Hulbert and his men were supplied with guns and am- 
munition ; and were afterwards stationed at Fort Constitu- 
tion. 

"In consideration of the defenceless state of E. part of 
Suffolk Co., the 3 companies raised for Continental service 
were continued there." — Ap. 3, " '76." 

The return of Col. Smith's Kegiment, May 30, '70, shows 
Ezekiel Mulford, Captain of a Company of 40 privates, 
"complete in arms." Another account is as follows : 

"12th Comp., Capt. Ezekiel Mulford ; 1st Lt., Sayre ; 2d 
Lt., Nath'l Hand ; Serg'ts, M. Mulford, Pierson, Domini ; 
Corp's, Henry Sherrel, Benj. Crook, Ludlam Parsons." 

As%arly as the Spring of 1776, an invasion of the Brit- 
ish forces upon New-York City had been anticipated. The 
fate of Long Island was readily seen to be linked witli that 
of the City. Remote, exposed, defcniccless, save by their 
own strong arms, but few volunteers could, have been ex- 
pected from this neighborhood. Yet East-Hampton had 
her full proportion of minute men in the field. 

The battle of Long Island was fought August 27, 1776, 
and its whole ext(mt came und(!r the control of the Bi'itisli 
forces. Those forces, in part, made the east end of the 
Island their winter quarters, and huded supplies upon the 
country. There are now, even a few venerable, living vet- 
erans, who remember the sufferings, the scenes of robbery, 
and violence which were perpetrated by the enem}-, and en- 



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tlurecl by the inliiibitants, — remember how the pulse beat 
high aud joyful at the uews of Burgojne's defeat, — remem- 
ber the lively, heartfelt sympathy with their lirethren in 
the field. 

It was not until the 25th of November, 178o, that the 
British troops evacuated New York City. During all the 
seven years the Island groaned under the oppressive occu- 
pation of their soil by the hostile Invader. 

Their circumstances exposed them, however, to sufferings 
and outrages from l)otli parties. Their forced submission to 
the Royal Army, (their misfortune, not their fault) caused 
them to be viewed with suspicion by their brethren upon 
the continent ; and often invited parties of plunder from that 
quarter. Multitudes fled for shelter and protection, to the 
shores of Connecticut. 

I find this memorandum, in 177(5 : 

"Sept. 15. — Wharves at Sag-Harbor crf)wded with emi- 
grants. ' 

"Dr. Buell writes from E. Hampton, Septr 22, '7(5, that 
tlie People are as a torch on fire at ])oth ends, whlcli will 
speedily be consumed, for the Cont. Whigs carry oft' their 
stock and produce, and the British punish them for allow- 
ing it to go, — hopes the Whigs will ]iot ojtpress the oppressed 
but let the stock alone." 

The history of that seven years' suffering will never be 
told. Philosophy has no adequate remedy for silent, un- 
known, uupitied siiftering. Man may brave every danger 
and endure every evil, perhaps, if human sympathy be 
ministered to him in life, and human immortality and ap- 
plause crown his tomb. But the display of passive virtues 
is a sublimer Oeld — a spiritual elevat'ioii al)ove our sphere. 
It rises into being only when npliehl l)y the Divinity ; ;tiid 
His aid witlulrawn, W(.' fall. 



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Throughout this period, it is uot kuoAvii tliat a sinole Tory 
lived in the l)ouuds of the town. 

Left to the tender mercies of the foe ; plundered by coun- 
try-man and stranger, of their property and ripened harvest; 
robbed of the stores which they had reaped and garnered ; 
slandered by suspicious brethren ; taunted and scoffed at 
by the mercenary victors, they never wavered. Their hearts 
were in their country's canse ; and in the memorable lan- 
guage of their great compatriot, "Sink or swim, live or die, 
survive or perish," they were true to their country, nnter- 
rified, unalterable, devoted Americans. 

The events of that memorable struggle are fast becomiug 
matters of tradition only. But tradition has still her unre- 
corded events. We might instance mam' a feat of personal 
prowess. We might tell how, often and again onr fathers, 
pressed, insulted, attacked by the presumptuous foe, felt 
their blood boil within them, and enduring until human na- 
ture could endure no more, turned with club or pitchfork 
upon the sword of the invader, and drove him from their 
sight. 

In their difficulties Dr. Buell, their minister, did not aban- 
don them. His talents, ingenuity, wit and mingled prudence 
and firmness, often averted threatened perils, and rendered 
important service to his people. 

Tradition has however handed down no name more illus- 
trious than that of Gapt. John Dayton, a lineal descendant 
of Ralph, the first settler of that name. 

Capt. Dayton was one of nature's uneducated heroes ; 
reckless, daring, shrewd, sanguine, he often .succeeded when 
others dared not hope. His lonely dwelling, two miles west 
from the centre of the town, was an invitii g location for the 
miscreant and coward to attack or phiuder. His house was 
several times beset. It was once attacked in the night by 



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the enemy, and while he was in the act of lighting a candle, 
a musket was discharged at him. Tliis was no time for lies-, 
itatiou ; the ball missed him and passed in the beam of his 
weaver's loom. Putting his little son, (Josiali,) out of the 
back door, in the midst of a deep snoAv, and directing him 
to flee for shelter and safety, he snatched that long, famous, 
deadly carabi)ie of his from its resting place, sallied out of 
the house, returned the enemy's lire, and withdrew in the 
house. He immediately began to call all imaginary names, 
as if he had a regiment of assistance sleeping in his cham- 
\)QY — loudly daring the British, meanwhile, to come on. 
The shot or the deception, or perhaps both, were success- 
ful. The enemy retired and left the marks of blood behind 
them. 

The next day the Captain, while in the yard was visited 
by the officer of the regiment. The officer leaped his horse 
astride him — brandished his cutlass — loaded the Captain 
with abuse, and threatened to slay him fo. killing one of his 
men. To use the Captain's own language, as in after years 
he related it, " His blood boiled within him, and his hair 
stood on end." Discovering a pitchfork near, he sprang for 
it, faced his adversary, brandished his rustic weapon, and 
ordered him to " be off." It needed no second command. 
The horse bounded with his rider over the pickets, and left 
the hero master of the field. 

We cannot forbear relating one other incident equally 
characteristic. During the revolution a British fleet anch- 
ored oft' Montauk. It was supposed by the inhabitants that 
they were abcnit to land there and seize the hordes of cattle 
and sheep which then as now were there depastured and 
fatted. 

The Captain thought he could prevent their landing, and 
save the cattle. He offered, to lead forty of his neighbors, 



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if so many would go, and save their flocks. Forty volun- 
teered to accompany the Captain, and they marched on to 
Montauk. He selected a hill, marched over it at the head 
of his company — descended into a hollow, where he was out 
of sight from the fleet. Shifting the position of his men, and 
cacli exchanging his coat, he again led them back, through 
a holloAv, unobserved by the fleet, to the starting place and 
over the hill ; and thus the company continued their march 
over and around the hill. The mauuuvre was calculated to 
produce the impression upon the fleet that a large army 
were marching and encamping in the vale beloAV. Whether 
this stratagem was the cause or not, the result Avas that the 
British did not land and the flocks Avere saved. 

The bold artifice reflects equal credit upon the Avarrior's 
oourage and fertile brain. 

This venerable chieftain and mighty hunter died in 1825, 
aged 98 years. 

The Avar of the Revolution left our toAvn like the rest of 
the country, Avorse in morals ; Avasted in property ; burdened 
with national debts, and groaning under taxes. Agriculture 
had declined ; commerce had been ruined ; estates SAvept 
aAvay ; and when the first thrilling, triumphant transports 
of a free, victorious people Avere oA'er, they Avopt at the sur- 
rounding desolation. 

But the spirit that had stood the test of Avar and conquest 
Avas not the spirit to fail in the arts of peace. By degrees 
prosperity returned ; commerce and agriculture flourished; 
education revived, and Avitliin a year after the British tn»ops 
evacuated NeAv-York, Clinton Academy Avas erected. It Avas 
incorporated by the authorities, and received under the pat- 
ronage of the Government, being the first chartered Acade- 
my in the State. 

We feel that Ave are tresspassing upon your^time and pa- 



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tience : that however pleasing it might have been to contin- 
ue them, we must noAv break off these reminiscences of the 
l)ast. Even in the relation of our early history, we have 
been compelled to omit much that is interesting, much that 
is essential to a thorough knowledge of the character of our 
ancestors. 

We could not describe, even briefly, the Maidstone they 
left, and the river Medway, upon the grassy banks of which 
they had sported. We had intended to relate more minute- 
ly the origin and nature of the early controversies of the 
Puritans in their own native country. We had designed to 
vindicate their laws from the slanders of many a prejudiced 
historian and writer — to have shown more fully with what 
wisdom they laid the foundations of a free and equitable 
jurisprudence. How many of us think you, unskilled in the 
practice and unstudied in the law, would in our day frame 
a better or wiser code than they ? We had intended to have 
shown how, (imperfect as they were,) they stood upon an 
intellectual eminence head and shoulders above the rest o* 
the world in the knowledge of the principles of a free gov 
ernment. 

The question is not whether their laws and simple ma- 
chinery of government is applicable to us. Was it a wise 
system for them ? We doubt whether up to their day in this 
world's history any community had ever enacted laws more 
appropriate or established a government better suited to 
their wants, wishes and welfare, than were theirs to them. 
We doubt whether any courts ever worked better or dis- 
pensed more impartial justice, or rendered more suitable 
redress than theirs. 

We have heard of " illiberality," of " canting hypocrisy," 
of " narrow-minded bigotry," of " blue laws," and " Salem 
witchcraft," and a thousand other flings and sneers at the 



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honest old Puritans of this country, until by the constant 
repetition of some faults which the Puritans shared in com- 
mon with their opponents of that day, and by the imputa- 
tion of many which they never had, many a weak minded 
man has been ashamed of those worthy ancestors Avho foun- 
ded the institutions which secure us oui political and re- 
ligious freedom."-'^ 

Let England thank God that the Puritans lived — thank 
the Puritans under God for many of the free princi]des 
which were engrafted in her constitution. 

Let America OAvn them as the fathers of education, piety 
and freedom. 

^e might have told how from time immemorial until 
within the last half century the simple manners of the early 
planters of this colony remained unimpaired the manners 
and customs of their descendants. 

We might have tokl how regularly. Monday morning Avas 
devoted by the matrons to washing, and how with equal 
regularity Monday afternoon was devoted to social visits. 
And if it Avas so, is there anything particularly sinful or 
ludicrous in their order and method. I have yet to learn 
that there is any bettei day of the week for that purpose 
than the one they chose. 

We are well aware that there is a sickly silly sentimental- 
ity afloat, which looks Avith conceited contempt upon every 
thing connected Avitli Puritanism. We AvellknoAv how much 
wiser some of their descendants feel themselves to be than 
their Puritan ancestors were. 

It may have been that their broad backs and stifl" knees 
l)ent Avitli less grace and pliancy than ours to the mandate 



*The wilful ami superlative mendacity of Peter's History of Conuec- 
ticut is fully exposed in the Historical Discourses of Prof. Kingsley and 
Leonard Pacou of New-Haven, Ct. 



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of human custom, it may have been that they felt con- 
strained by their understanding of revealed truth to adopt 
a more strict and faithful parental control than we. Per- 
haps their coats were more for use and less for show ; jier- 
haps they were broader in some places, and coarser and 
plainer than ours. 

But those same queer old men and women in their antique 
apparel built America. They cleared her forests ; extermi- 
nated her wild beasts ; founded schools and colleges ; fought 
the Revolution ; established the Republic ; framed the best 
Government under Heaven for a free people, and transmit- 
ted those immunities and institutions unsullied and unim- 
paired to their descendants. 

As we are bound to maintain and defend our institutions 
and privileges, our invaluable inheritance ; so are we bound 
to honour and defend whatever was high and manly in their 
character, and cherish .with a filial tenderness their fame and 
memory. 

standing amid the graves of our ancestors, collected in 
their ancient temple of worship, what thrilling recollections 
rush along the memory. While we are reminded by the 
crumbled dust of former generations, that we hold our ex- 
istence by the frailest tenure, and that we too shall soon 
pass away from this stage of living action, and our departed 
dust will mingle with theirs ; we are also reminded of the 
proper objects and purposes of life ; we are incited to act 
faithfully our part in the several spheres in which we move : 

" In the world's broad field of battle, 

In the bivouac of life, 
Be not like dumb driven cattle, 
Be a hero in the strife." 

Where shall the spiritual aspirations of our nature rise if 

not upon the graves of our sires? Where if not there shall 

the high resolve and noble purpose of the soul be formed ? 



41 

Well may we lay the passions, the prejudices and the sel- 
fishness of our nature by the tomb of our ancestors. We 
may there learn the lessons of a high and holy patriotism 
of a purer and more elevated piety. 

We feel our souls kindle in generous emulation of their 
example. We feel above the limited recollections and in- 
terests of every days pursuit. We break through the pres- 
ent objects of sight and sense. AVe feel our relation to the 
venerable past, to the pious dead. We contemplate our 
connection as one of tne links that stretch along the chain 
of the boundless future. ' 

Our ancestors ; who has fully comprehended the meaning 
of those words ? 

They lived when this world's bright but transient morn 
began. They lived when sin began its reign. 

" Earth felt the wound, aud Nature from her seat. 
Sighing through all lier works gave signs of woe 
That all was lost." 

In that long night of wretchedness which followed, they 
lived. Thej lived when Heaven sent its Saviour down to 
earth. When Cesar stormed the Northern Isles they met 
him like heroes on the very shore. They fought at Hast- 
ings when the invaders wrenched their dearest liberties 
and rights. — Through all past time they lived. 

Our posterity ; they will extend through all coming time. 
Another centennial anniversary of the planting of this little 
commonwealth, you and I shall never see. But our children 
that rise up after us we trust will rejoice at its return and 
pa} the tribute of respectful gratitude to our memory and 
the memory of those who have now long since passed away. 
Changes will come — kingdoms and nations be overturned — 
and yet the waves of successive generations will rise and 
roll onward, far onward until the winding up this world's 
affairs. 



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We are not severed fragments — broken remnants of a dis- 
jointed race — but connected, closely, intimatel}' connected 
with all that is past — with all in this world yet to come. 

Matrons and maidens of my native town : — Worthy were 
your mothers of their noble })artners in the vicissitudes and 
perils of their earthly career — meet helps in laying the 
foundations of learning, liberty and morals — lit in rearing 
the finished and tasteful superstructure. We admire their 
courage, their constancy, their devotion. Tradition has told 
us of their simple habits, their pure desires. Despite not 
ye their bright example. What though the fashion of their 
day has passed away — what though Ave smile at the anti- 
quated equipage and costume of their time. The fashion 
and the paraphernalia of our day will also soon be past for- 
ever. The attire of the living will be put off, and the habil- 
iments of the dead will enclose our dust ; and in your turn 
ye Avill be the departed mothers of future generations. So 
live that the graces and simple habits and worthy pursuits 
of the early mothers of our village shall survive and adorn 
the life of our descendants. 

And now, ye fellow townsmen, ye have looked upon the 
graves of your departed sires. We have recounted their 
deedg — we have lived in the historic remembrances of the 
past — we have traced tlie origin of its early settlement — we 
have seen the deep foundations of permanency, prosperity 
and peace, in the life and habits of the Pilgrim band. That 
ardent, patriotic fire burned in as bright a fiame the first 
three half centuries in the breasts of their descendants. 
That spirit assisted in rearing the imj^osing edifice of our 
National Liberty. It built our Academic Hall. — illustrious 
in its name- — ilhistrious as the first that fiourished with a 
chartered life within the confines of our state, — j)i*<^"^^ ^i^^^ 
thrice happy in the annual cohorts that it dismissed with 



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its parting blessing, to adoru the laud. That spirit reared 
the venerable temple of the living God. 

Still longer do we love to linger around the remembrances 
of the past. Are our fathers dead ? Do we look at all that 
remains of them when we survey their departed dust ? No ! 
ah ! no ! Their memory lives ! Their deeds survive ! Their 
labours speak their fame. Their institutions, founded in 
toil and built in sacrifice, are the inheritance of their de- 
scendants. 

They live — They, the spirits of the just, perchance to-day 
look down upon us from their high abode — blest in the in- 
heritance of the Saints ! Blest in the welcome of the High- 
est ! Blest in the homage of the Living ! 

They speak to us to-day — " For you we did maintain our 
birthright and our liberties. For you we raised the Hall 
of science and of learning ; enlarge the walls ; adorn its por- 
tals ; fill its alcoves. For you we reared a holy Church to 
our High King — that church, that dear, blest Church, main- 
tain. Fulfil yonr mission on the earth ; live for the world 
as we have lived ; live for the boundless future. Beyond 
this day, this present fleeting day, will generations rise ; 
they feel your impress ; they are moulded by your charac- 
ter ; they are destined to move onward as your impulses 
have directed them. Live then as men, as patriots, and as 
Christians. Leave the impress and the memory of yonr 
noble efforts with your posterity, and join us in His good 
time, this side the swelling Jordan, in our promised, ever- 
lasting Home." 



CHAPTER in. 



Introduction to Vol. I of the Town Recouds — 1649-1680. 

Itivifatioi/ to the Writer, jj. 44. Ooverninent, a Necessitij, p. 
45. Value of the Records, jj. 45. The Toivn. MecthKj, [>. 4(>. 
Representative Governme)ii Desired, p. 40. The Setlleineid. 
extended, p. 50. Witchcraft, p. 5h Whuliny, p. 52. The 
Title to Lands, p. 58. The Church, p. 54. Lion Gardi- 
ner, p. 55. (Jharacter Fixed, ]). 56. 



The towu of East-Hampton settled in 1649, in 1653 built 
and thatched a church. Tradition (probably correct) locates 
that church on the east side of the present burying-ground, 
opposite to and west ©f the house-lot of Lyon Gardiner. 
South of Lyon Gardiner and also on the east side of the street 
lived William Hedges. On the west side of the street then 
lived l^homas Baker and Thomas Osborn, and all within one- 
fourth of a mile of that church as a centre. Jonathan T. 
Gardiner, descendant of that Lyon ; Jonathan Baker, de- 
scendant of that Thomas ; Joseph S. Osborn, descendant of 
that same Thomas Osborn, are a committee chosen by their 
fellow townsmen to procure the publication of the ancient 
records of their town. They have invited the writer, a na- 
tive of their town and descendant of the same William 
Hedges, to prejjare an introduction to such publication. 
More than two and a fourth centuries have passed since th» 
ancestors of these descendants with others, the first settlers, 
laid the foaudations of the good old town of East-Hampton. 
Our forefathers'wrought in harmony the great work of plants 



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ing a colony Avliich sliould endure for coming centuries. 
Side by side theii- bones are mouldering in the old " South- 
end " burying ground. Succeeding generations took up their 
work in turn to cease, and again beside each other there, to 
rest in the last long sleep. The animating sentiment, the 
impelling motive, the moving impulse, the sustaining forti- 
tude, the elevating aims, the upholding faith, the cheering 
frieudshijjs, the darkening perils were similar for all. They 
were in life united and in death not divided. This invitation 
to the writer from the descen<lants of such sires, is enforced 
by the memories of eight generations of the dead. Their 
mighty sliades make the call to him sacred. 

The free Government and institutions of the ITnited States 
of America were born in its early settlements. Of necessity 
the first colonial communities were self govt^'ued. They 
were in a wilderness which must be subdued to sustain them. 
Wild beasts and wild Indians encircled them. They were 
visited b}^ roaming tramps and vagabonds. Discordant ele- 
ments divided them. Gaunt famine threatened. On every side 
without and within the dark cloud of danger hung over 
them. Untiring industry alone could keep away starvation. 
Fearless strength alone subdue the wild beast. Sleepless 
vigilance only secure from the savage foe. Organized power 
only could settle and put down individual grievances and 
(piarrels. Combination only could build churches and school- 
houses, roads and l)rido;i's. Martial law oidy could gather 
power to repel the enemy. Self-i)reservation required self- 
government. Discord and disorder was ruin. 

The government must embody tlie people's will or lie a 
shadow. It must be strong to act or be defied. It must be 
swift to strike or fail of opportunity. It must drown all dis- 
cord or be overwhelmed by it. 

In such conditions were all the early colonial settlements. 



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Tlierefrom sprang a hardy race who by unshrinking toil felled 
the forest, built villages and towns, made laws suitable to 
their requirements, instituted churches, organized armies and 
in self-reliant hope and courage founded a nation on the 
Western shore of the Atlantic. As truly as the rivej 's source 
is found in remote springs and fountains whose union forms 
the rolling stream, so truly the springs and fountains of these 
great States are found in the early settlements of this fair, 
free land. 

The Records of the Town of East-Hampton are more full, 
more clear, more continuous, more intelligent than are usual- 
ly found in like early colonies. They contribute clear his- 
toric light wherein from the source in the past Ave may trace 
the causes which produced the present. Every native of the 
old town, every careful student of our National History will 
rejoice that these records by publication have become an 
enduring memorial to the world, and thank the sons of her 
early settlers for this generous contribution to the history of 
our nation. 

From the settlement of the Town in 1649 until the con- 
quest of the Colony of New-York in 1664, East-Hampton 
was practically self-governed. Left mainly to itself these 
fifteen years the colony gained an experience of self-control 
and self-reliance that educated it for free institutions which in 
succeeding ages arose out of like experience in all the old 
settlements of the country. 

The Town Meeting was the originating organizing, elect- 
ing, legislating and deciding power. As early as October 3, 
1650, at a Town Meeting then holden, called a " Court of 
Election," Thos. Talmage, Jr., is chosen recorder. Also 
" four men with the constable for the orders of ye 'affairs' 
of ye Towne." The ordinances then and thereafter enacted 
were such as were called for by their peculiar condition. 



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Tlia oatlis prescribed for tlie ()ftt(;es of Recorder, the three 
men, sometimes 4 aud sometimes more, hohliug magisterial 
authority ; the pound-master and constable are on pages 6 
and 7. The four men or any two of them could try cases 
involving any sum under forty shillings. See page 7. 

The Montauks were the most powerful and probably num- 
erous tribe of Indians on Long Ishind, claiming tiibute and 
service from all the other tribes at the time of this settlement. 
Even after the universal massacre of their warriors by the 
Narraghansetts, (see pages 174, 175-6) and the terrific rav- 
ages of the small-pox (see page 201), their number was large 
and stated in 1761 to l,e 180. 

An alliance with the nearest settlement for purposes of 
security of defence and improvement of adjoining lands, was 
vital. The entry succeeding the earliest record of the Town 
Meeting shows the care taken to make this secure, (see pages 
8, 9, 10.) 

The order that all that are tit to benr arms be sufficiently 
"provided of such amies' aud the prohibition to sell "pow- 
der, lead, shot, sword, flint, gun <^r pistol to any Indian," 
(page 8,) show the sense of impending peril. 

In all that required care for the general safety against out- 
side foes, internal dissension, individual neglect, violence, 
fraud or injustice against (oppression, avarice, theft, crime, 
disorder and vice, the Town Meeting fitted the Law for the 
emergency, and with heav\ ha.nd repressed all disorder. 

Although the Town Meeting met often, sometimes month- 
ly and sometimes "in 'A wekes," "or els the first wet day and 
all to appere at tlie beat of the drum" (p. 12) ; although the 
magistrates, generally "3 men" were directed to hold court 
"every montli," (see page 17), yet it might be too long for an 
impatient litigant to wait until the sitting of either. In case 
the r(>al or suppf)sed necessity so i-ecjuired a court could be 



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demanded sooner provided the litigant paid the fees therefoj- 
(see pages 7, 74 and 424.) The term "purchased court," or 
purchasing a court, occurring in these records simply means 
that the court was held at an extra occasion and the fees of 
the court were paid by a litigant and were simply a com- 
pensation for the time of the court. In the sense that the 
judgment of the court was "purchased" or purchasable, a 
comparison of the ancient Avith modern tribunals or legisla- 
tures would do no discredit to the former. 

The Town Meeting, the acorn out of which grew the 
stately oak of local and national government in these Ui ited 
States acted under so many occasions and emergencies that 
entire classificarion is hardly possible. The following may 
assist the reader in the study of the subject : 

EHE TOWN MEETING. 

Elected all officers— pages, 7, 45, 88, 99, 103, 113, 148, 
180, 185, 187, 197, 200, 225, 242, 255, 274, 364, 366, 414. 

Constituted Courts— pages 7, 45, 154, 177, 227. 

Tried important cases — pages, 22, 38, 87, 389. 

Heard Appeals— pages, 27, 28. 

Ordered Lands Allotted— pages, 15, 25, 151, 180, 181, 186, 
188, 204, 267, 392. 

Chose the Minister, &c. — page 16. 

School Master, ttc. — page, 380. 

Fixed their Salaries— pages, 16, 155, 183, 393, 404, 432. 

Ordered the Church built — pages, 19, 20, 66. 

Admitted or excluded Settlers. — pages, 7, 13, 18, 20, 91, 
176, 182, 327, 371, 387, 395, 400, 421. 

Ratilied or annulled Sales of Land — pages, 13, 18, 20, 109, 
154, 231, 327. 

Assigned to Committees their duties — pages, 13, 18, 291. 

Made police regulations— images, 8, 11, 17, 18, 20, 21, 29, 
71, 81, 101, 104, 192, 201, 367, 380, 422. 



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Imposed fines for absence from Town Meetinjr — pages, 7, 
13, 14, 16, 17, 145, 251, 856. 

Neglect to vote or accept office — pages, 28, 100, 145. 

Ordered a prison — page, 57. 

Licensed Tavens — pages, 61, 154, 370. 

Appointed or provided for the Whale Watch — pages, 18, 
29, 60, 87, 114. 

Regulated the fencing and improvement of the public 
lands— pages, lO. , 144, 146, 148, 155, 185, 186, 190, 192, 
197, 218, 220, 224, 257, 270, 327, 361, 367, 386, 388, 392, 
401, 404, 423. 

Chose military officers— page, 225. 

Fixed times for burning the woods — pages, 17, 21, 220. 

Expelled vagabonds— pages, 18, 20, 93, 371, 421. 

Provided for highways, <Src.— pages, 27, 00, 68, 22, 32, 46, 
59. 

Labor thereon, and footpaths — pages, 27, 71, 187, 224, 269. 

Enacted Laws for Estrays — page, 272. 

For settling Mechanics— pages, 307, 331, 338, 339, 349, 
360, 415, 416. 

The entry of June 24, 1672, page 346, is significant. In 
the March of 1672, France and England had declared war 
against the Netherlands. Governor Lovelace had summoned 
the eastern towns of Sufi^olk County to assist in defending the 
Colony and contribute to repairing the fortification at New- 
York city. The Justices and deputies from these towns 
meeting at Southold, had determined that ihey would so 
contribute "If they might have the privileges that other of 
his Majesties subjects in these parts do have and enjoy." 
The determination " is well approved of by this town and 
they are willing to answer their part in the charge accord- 
ing to their act if the privileges may be obtained but iio 
otherwise." The novice in historv will understand that 



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representative Assemblies were granted to Rhode Island 
and other colonies by charter, and had just been granted to 
New Jersey. This privilege so dear to free born English- 
men, inherited from Magna Charta, the safeguard against 
arbitrary taxation, is the privilege so earnestly desired by 
them, and the granting whereof is made the condition for 
their contributing. Thus early the sons of this old town 
evinced their undying attachment to the liberties of the cit- 
izen. The experiment of self-government conducted by 
them in their forest home for a generation had borne good 
fruit. In their own experience of nearl}- one-fourth of a 
ceniury secluded from the hand of power, too obscure for 
the notice of rulers, they had administered among them- 
selves such laws, civil and martial, as suited their simple 
habits. Well they knew no laws made in Parliament 
wherein they were unheard, could lit their condition so ex- 
actly as their own taught them b}' their circumstances. In 
after years, through the voice of their representative, Sam- 
uel Mulford, they spoke for freedom. Its undying spirit 
burned in all their succeeding histoj-y. The resolve *of this 
liberty-loving town was no more doubtful than the resound- 
ing echoes of Bunker Hill. If the heavy hand of despotic 
power found servility elsewhere in these old towns the un- 
equivocal tones of freedom rang out as warning bells for the 
coming centuries. 

This volume of the Records extends about thirty years 
from the first settlement. The colony was fairly launched 
on the political ocean where were sailing many like towns 
on the borders of the Atlantic. The members of the colony 
had increased. Dangers from the savage had lessened. 
Adventurous hearts panted for more acres and more room. 
John Osboru selling land at the east and acquiring much 
more at the west at Waiuscott, was located there in 1670, 



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and being so " remote from the town," in June of that year 
a grant of preference " to grind at the mill " is given him. 
The tradition that he was the first settler of Wainscott is 
confirmed by this and other entries in the records. His 
home lot taken by the settlers given to Tnos. Smith, a black- 
smith, who soon leaves, then dedicated by vote for a par- 
sonage, is finally sold to Josiali Hobart, who settles on it 
and afterwards becomes High Sheriff of his county. 

WTTCHCllAFT 

The wife of Joshua Garlick, accused of witchcraft, by an 
order of the town meeting made March 19th, 1657, was di- 
rected to be taken for trial to Hartford. The testimony 
against her is scattered over the records anterior to and 
about the time of this entry The result of this trial appears 
to have been unknown until lately. In the printed colonial 
'records of Connecticut, pages 572 and 3, apj)ears the follow- 
ing letter, and on the same page in a Note the letter is said 
to be in the handwriting of Gov. Winthrop, not dated, but 
must have been, written some time in the spring of 1678 : 

letter to east-hampton. 
" Gen & Loving Friends : 

We having received your letter & findinge recorded a Court 
Order of 1649 wherein ye Court declared their acceptance 
of your Towne under this Government by your Ageuts Lift. 
Gardiner, etc., we shall present the same <o our next Gen • 
Court for a further & full confirmation thereof : And ye 
meantime did take yt case which was presented from you 
into serious consideration and there hath passed a lepall 
tryall thereupon : Whereupon though there did not appeare 
sufficient evidence to prove her guilty yet we cannot but 
well approve and commend the Christian care <fe prudence of 
those in authority with you in searching into ye case ac- 
cordinge to such just suspicion as appeared. 



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Also we think good to certify yt is desired A" expected by 
this Court yt you shouhl cary neighbourly & peaceably 
witliout just offence to Jos. Garlick it his wife ttytye should 
doe ye like to you. And ye charge wee conceive tt advise 
maj' be justly borne as followeth : yt Jos. Garlick should 
bear ye charge of her transportation hither S: return home. 
2ndly, yt your towne should beare all their own charges at 
home S: the charge of their messengers tt witnesses in bring- 
ing the case to tryall here (S: their return home — the Court 
being content to put ye charge of the Tryall here upon ye 
County's account." 

Thus the only known case of accusation for witchcraft 
in East -Hampton, for the trial of which the town author- 
ities preferred to seek a higher tribunal, resulted in an ac- 
quittal, to the lasting honor of the town and the colony of 
Connecticut. 

WHALING. 

The first settlement of the Town was located near the 
ocean, as if for convenience of whaling, which probably was 
even then a consideration moving to the enterprise. Refer- 
ences to this adventurous business occur among the earliest 
records, and s^em to indicate that the Avhole colony wore in- 
terested and engaged and sharing therein. (See pages 8, 18 
29, 53, (10), even suspending school tiicrefor, (p. 880). As 
early as 16(i8, Jas. Loper was here suing Renek Garrison 
for " non-performance of his agreement about going a fish- 
ing," p. 284. In 1672 he was attaching blubber of Nathan- 
iel Williams, p. 344. In May, lf)78, he is acquiring a house 
lot in the Calf Pasture (south of Wm. Hedges' lot), p. 360. 
In Deceml)er, 1674, he had married Eiizal)eth, daughter of 
Arthur Howell, and was making a marriage settU>ment on 
his wife, p. 372. The Record.s of Nantucket, under date of 
June 5, 1672, contain the draft (jf a proposed agreement 



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witli James Loper, of East-Hani [>ti)n, to cngacje there " on 
a design of w]ial(> t-atciiijig." It does uot ap^jear that Loper 
went to Nantucket on the " design." Possibly the bright 
eyes of Elizabeth HoAvell were a strong attraction and may 
account for the marriage and settlement and prosecution of 
whaling thereafter at East- Hampton. The very successful 
prosecution of off shore whaling in late years at Amagansett, 
is but the continuation of adventure perilous but prosper- 
ous, conducted by the havdy sons of East-Hampton from 
the earliest times. 

THE TITLE TO THE LANDS UNDIVIDED. 

It has been a question often mooted whether the title to 
the lands vested in the town as a corporation or in certain 
proprietors, their heirs and assigns. Some expressions in 
the records appear as if the town as a town owned and con- 
trolled until allotted all the lands therein ; but the proprie- 
tors who undertook the enterprise of settling the colony, 
purchasing of the Indians, instituting and building the 
church and schoolhouse, and subduing the wilderness, 
called themselves "the town." To all practical purposes 
for over an hundred years they were " the town." Their 
expenditures of time, labor, money, hardship and danger 
made the place habitable for themselves and others, and the 
enhanced value they deemed as justly an inheritance belong- 
ing to them and their heirs. 

On page 66 is found " the charge for the Meeting House." 
Against the name of each land owner is set the amount he 
contributed, then the number of acres he was entitled to 
share in the undivided lands of the town ; then his propor- 
tion due according to his share, then the balance due to or 
from him. 

Thomas Baker contributed £ 1 , 08s, 06d ; he was the own- 
er of 21 acres in all the yet undivided lands, he was bound 



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to contribute £0, 13s, l^d ;" there was due liim £0, 15s, 3^d. 
Now, turning to page 342, where is recorded the land of 
Thos. Baker, we lind he had " a one and twenty acre lot, 
viz : Home lot and plains Avith all privileges and appurte- 
nances belonging to such an allotment." In other words, he 
had a right in the division of unallotted lands to that pro- 
portion, if he had received more that would be deducted, 
and if less, that would be made up to him in a future divis- 
ion of laud. 

All this agrees with the purchase of How by Baker, "what 
he now possesseth & what is or may belong to him with re- 
lation to his Lott as his right to his settling there," page 5 
The 13 acre lot of William Barnes, " 437 

The 20 " " " Eobt. Bond, " 445 

The 13 " " " Richard Brooks, " 447 

The 21 " " " Thos. Chatfield, " 451 

The 20 " " " William Edwards, " 474 

These and others are simjDly illustrations of the principle 
admitted on the records, of individual ownership in all the 
undivided lands covered by the deeds, in proportions well 
understood and recognized in the allotments or divisions of 
lands whenever made. 

The word " commonage " is often applied to these undi- 
vided rights in the unallotted territory, as on page 374, in 
the gift of John Mulford, senior. 

CHURCH. 

There is no doubt that the early settlers of this town were 
strict Calvinists. Characteristic of their Puritan principles 
they called their church building "the meeting house." 
Neither in this or neighboring churches was any name sec- 
tarian or denominational given to the church as such. "The 
church in Southampton," in "Bridge-Hampton," in " East- 
Hampton," were so called from the village or town of their 



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location, and only so called. When the vencrahle James, 
after along service rested from his labors his loving i)eople 
engraved on his tombstone no narrow epithet, but this : 
" He was Ministar of the Gospel And Pastyre of the Church 
of Christ." The colony was happy in the choice of their 
Pastor. Minister James understood the Indian language, 
sometimes instructed the Indians and preached to them, and 
acted as an interpreter (Southampton Records, Vol. I, p. 
160, Vol. Ill, p. 110.) He was learned, resolute, just, sin- 
cere, fearless, active, a powerful personality. 

The colony were not less happy in the watchful regard of 
Lion Gardiner, who soon became one of their number and 
occupied the lot next that of Minister James with whom 
he took " sweet counsel." He was venerable for yeai's, of 
large experiance, both warrior and statesman. With the 
councils at Hartford or of the Sachem at Montauk, his in- 
fluence was potent. The flight of centuries revealing the 
weakness, the errors, the mistakes of the past, has left un- 
dimmed the ?-adiant name of this magnanimous Puritai). 

This volume covers the formation period of the town. 
The infant had grown to manhood. Under the tuition of 
Connecticut for the first fifteen years, East-Hampton was 
cast in the Puritan mould. After the conquest of the New 
Netherlands in 1664, by the English, the entreaty of East- 
Hampton to al)ide with the colony of Connecticut was de- 
nied, p. 223, 241. In March, 1666, for their own safety they 
were constrained to purchase and hold under the authority 
of the Duke of York, by patent from Governor Nicoll — pages 
353, 354, etc. 

In June, 1674, after the reconqnest from the Dutch, a re- 
newed petition to be joined with Connecticut, is made in 
vain, p. 370. Yet for two centuries East-Hampton in untir- 
ing industry, in adventurous enterprise, in intellectual cul- 



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ture, ill free aspirations, in modes of thought, in devotional 
fervor, was essentially Puritan. Disunited in government, 
it remained essentially in spirit a fragment of New England. 
The early history of the settlers reveals nothing of which 
their descendants need be ashamed. The transforming hand 
of the Puritan SAvept away its wilderness and planted the 
harvest. The free soul of the Puritan burst the bands of 
oppression and instituted freedom. The burning devotion 
of the Puritan revealed to the world a light that growing in 
radiance shall yet lead the millions into "the new heavens 
and new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness." 
Bkidge-Hampton, February 26th, 1887. 

H. P. HEDGES. 



CHAPTEE IV. 



Intkoduction to Vol. II of the Town Eeoords — 1680-1720. 

The groiuth of the Colony,' p, 57. State of the Church, p. 58. 
The Bobber Governors of the Province, p. 59. The Toivn 
resists their oppression, p. 60. The address of 1685, p. 63. 
Leisler-StoiKjhter, p. 64. Improvement of lands in common 
a failure, p. 64. Whaling, Farming, Shoe-making, p. 66. 
The Fort, p. 67. The Burying Ground, p. 68. Death of 
Minister James, Rev. Nathanel Huntting, the Ocean, p. 69. 



The attentive reader closing the first volume of printed 
records of the town of East-Hampton, is assured that the 
elements of perpetuity have been so developed that by the 
natural law of growth, a larger life and progress was coming 
to the Colony. The settlers had overcome the first and the 
worst foes that imperilled their being. The close of King 
Phillip's war had removed all danger from the Indians. The 
most formidable wild beasts had been destroyed ; the most 
venomous reptiles exterminated ; unwelcome intruders had 
been warned and left for other homes. The patent of March 
13th, 1666, from Gov. Nicolls, was thought to have assured 
their title to the purchased territory, beyond cavil. Mort 
than all, they had proved able to govern themselyes. Rules, 



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laws, customs, linbits— had crystallized into a fixed system. 
In 1687, the population was : 

Males 223 No. capable of bearing arms. . 98 

Females 218 No. of merchants 2 

Male servants. . . 26 No. of marriages in 7 years. . 28 

Female servants . 9 No. of births 116 

Male slaves 11 No. of christened 198 

Female slaves. . . 14 No. of burials 57 



Total 502 

Documentary History of New York, p. 360, Vol. III. 

The state of the Church, Oct. 5, 1704, as laid before the 
clergy at New York, then convened by appointment of Lord 
Cornbury and Col. Francis Nicholson, Governor and Lieu- 
tenant-Governor of the Colony, is thus given : 

" ACCOUNT OF SUFFOLK COUNTY. 

In Suffolk County, in the east end of Long Island, there 
is neither a church of England, minister, nor any provision 
made for one by law ; the people generally being independ- 
ents, and upheld in their separation by New England emis- 
saries." — See Documentary Hist, of New York, pp. Ill and 
115, Vol. HI 

The increase in population and adherence to their worshii3, 
"independent" of the established Church of England, now 
made them lit subjects for the rapacity of Governors com- 
missioned for the very purpose of subverting representative 
government, and repairing their ruined fortunes by extor- 
tion from the Colonists. More insidious than the wily sav- 
age, more dangerous than wild beast, more relentless than 
the venomous serpent, these robber Governors were the 
mightiest foes of the Colony. In the communications of the 
Duke of York (afterwards James the 2d) to Gov. Andros, 
the danger of public assemblies was declared, and the Duke's 
opinion stated in the words : " Neither do I see any use for 



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them." (See Bancroft's History U. S., Vol. II, p. 406.) In 
swift successiou Goveruor succeeded Goveruor, each in 
the main baffled b}^ the sturdy resistance of the people, no 
where more persistent than in East-Hampton. 
The Governors were : 
1664 — Richard Nicolls. 
1667 — Francis Lovelace. 
1674 — Edmund Andros. 
1677 — Anthony Bfockholst. 
1678 — Edmund Andros. 
1681 — Anthony Brockholst. 
1682— Col. Thos. Dongan. 
1688— Edmund Andros. 

" Francis Nicholson, Lieut. -Governor. 
1689 — Jacob Leisler. 
1691 — Henry Sloughter. 

" Richard Ingoldsby. 
1692 — Benjamin Fletche). 
1698 — Richard Foote, Earl Bellemont. 
1699 — John Nanfan, Lieut.-Governor. 
1700— Earl of Bellemont. 
1701— William Smith. 

" John Nanfan, Lieut.-Governor. 
1702— Edward Hyde, Lord Cornbury. 
1708 — John Ford, Gov. Lovelace. 
1709 — Peter Schuyler, President of the Council. 

" Richard Ingoldsby, Lieut.-Governor. 
1710— Robert Hunter. 
The three eastern towns of this County — Southampton, 
Southold and East-Hampton — were the back bone of the 
county, if not of the whole Colony of New York, in advocat- 
ing representative government and resisting encroachments 
upon their liberties. As between the Colonists and the King, 



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tlie Governors were uniroriiily servile to liim, and hostile to 

them. In this, Anclros and Dougan, "the Catholic," were 

alike. Fletcher was "covetous and passionate." Corubury 

"had every vice of charactei necessary to disci})line a colony 

into self-reliance and resistance." (See Bancroft History 

of U. S., pp. 56 and 60, Vol. III.) The conflict between our 

Puritan forefathers and these governors was long, unequal, 

and often resulted adversely to the people. 

" But freedom's Battle once fjeguii, 
Bequeathed from bleeding sire to sou. 
Though baffled oft is ever won."' 

The conflict waged in 1681 for chartered rights, and rep- 
resentative government never ceased until freedom Avon at 
Yorktown. 

There was an attempt in 1682 to levy customs without a 
colonial assembly, which had been defeated by the Grand 
Jury, and trade became free just as Andros was returning to 
England. In 1683, the neAvly appointed Gov. Dongan was 
instructed to call a general assembly of all the freeholders, by 
the persons whom they should choose to represent them. In 
October, 1684, the assembly met and claimed in a bill of 
rights as Englishmen, that "Every freeholder and Freeman 
should vote. Trial to be by Jury." "No tax to be levied 
but by consent of the assembly," etc. In 1685, in less than 
a mouth after James the Second ascended the throne, he pre- 
pared to overturn the institutions he had conceded. By or- 
dinance a direct tax was decreed. The titles to real estate 
were questioned that larger fees and quit rents might be 
extorted, and of the farmers of East-Hampton who protested 
against the tyranny, six were arraigned before the Council. 
(See Bancroft's Hist. U. S., Vol II, pp. 413-14-15.) 

In May, 1686, Gov. Dongan was endeavoring to compel 
the people of East-Hampton to purchase a new patent at an 
exorbitant price, and they were resisting the attempt at ex- 



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tortion. The proprietor vote of tliat date regarding the four 
men on whom a warrant had been served, p. 186 ; the vote 
of "tlie pmc'liasers and proprietors of tin's town," Jnne 11, 
KiSO, choosing a committee for tlie defence of their rights ; 
the committee vote of June 14, 1686, appointing "Leiftenant • 
John Wheeler and Ensine Samuel Mulford" to defend the 
town's interest, ]>. 187 — all relate to this controversy with 
the Governor. 

July 29, 1686, ten persons complained to the Governor 
that the town will lay out no land to them, and he by order 
in council then directed Josiah Hobart, High Sheriff of the 
County, to lay out to each thirty acres. The written protest 
against this laying out, dated October 6, 1686, Avas deemed 
a liliel, and an information to that effect filed hj the Attorney 
General. Warrants issued for the arrest of Stephen Hedges, 
William Perkins, Jeremy Conkling, Daniel and Nathaniel 
Bishop, Samuel Mulford, Robert Dayton, Samuel Parsons, 
Benjamin Conklin, Thomas Osborne and John Osborne. 
October 17th, 1686, Thomas James preached from the text 
Job xxiv, 2 : "Some remove the land mark." Nov. 18th, 
1686, Sheriff' Hobart attested under oath to the text and, 
teaching of the sermon. The same day an order in council 
was entered that a warrant issue against Minister James on 
the ground that the sermon was seditious. A like inform- 
ation against him was tilcMl. A warrant for his arrest issued 
Nov. 18th, 1686. Ho was arrested, and some three weeks 
thereafter petitioned the Governor for his release, reciting 
this as "the first tyme (for almost for'v years of my being 
a minister of the Gospel; that I have been called to account 
bv any authority I have lived under." (See Documentary 
History of New-York, pp. 351 to 860, Vol. III.) 

Tlic arbitrary powc^' of Doiigan ])r(^vail('d ; a ])atent was 
procurt'd, dated Dcccmbci- Utli, 1686, which secured indi- 



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vidually to the holder all lands "then taken up and appro- 
priated," to the purchasers all lands "unappropriated," 
"in proporcion to their severall & respective purchases 
thereoff," and gave to the trustees of the corporation the 
pre-emption or first purchase right as to the then unpur- 
chased part of Montauk. (See pages 194 to 204.) The 
patent is a mass of redundant verbage perplexing to the 
ordinary reader. The pith of the whole regarding title, is 
on page 198, which determines the sense and meaning of 
the instrument. Thus the proprietors obtained from the 
Governor a patent which confirmed their title to all the 
unallotted lands in the town as purchasers thereof, in pro- 
portion to their several contributions of purchase money. 
This was just what they had claimed from the beginning, 
and neither less or more. The consistency of the Governor 
in arbitrarily ordering a division of thirty acres each to 
those not entitled, and thereafter ignoring their claim, and 
by patent confirming title to the purchasers, is not ap- 
parent. It seems plain that the whole proceedings were 
designed to force the people to pay as they did pay the ex- 
tortionate charge of two hundred pounds for the patent. 
Eighty pounds thereof was charged to Montauk. An extra 
amount was assessed to pay the costs arising "about mens 
protests," (p. 204.) 

The people of the Town of East-Hampton claimed the 
right to be represented in a colonial assembly, and that 
taxes could rightfully be levied only by assent of their 
representatives. This was the burden of their grievance ; 
this the reason why again and again they petitioned to be 
placed under the aurhority and jurisdiction of Connecticut 
where representative government was established. Only 
in the light of such claims of right can the records be 
properly read. The address voted at a general training, 



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June 21st, 1082, (page 112). The appointment of a eom- 
niittee to obtain redress from the Duke of York, (pp. 112 
and 113) in this vieAv, are significant. 

Samnel Mulford, Samuel Parsons and Tliomas Chatfield 
signed tlie letter dated March 10th, 1689-90, written to 
Leisler, reciting that "we have agreed to send oA^er to his 
Majesty both a true narration of ye grievances we have suf- 
fered this many years under an arliitrary power, and a pe- 
tition to their majesties yt we miglit be rejoined with Con- 
necticut government as formerly, agreeably to the act of 
Parliament, yt all places (NE being particularly mentioned) 
shall have the same privileges they enjoyed in ye year 1660, 
restored unto them." (See Documentary History of New- 
York, Vol. II, page 187.) This recital is unequivocal, and 
makes the more clear many entries in the Town Records. 
The address to the Governor, dated Oct. 1st, 1685, (pages 
169 and on) is not only a recital of the fact that formerly 
by "deputies" at Hempstead, "the whole Island being as- 
sembled in our representatives," but a claim to such rep- 
resentation "as a fundamental privilege of our English Na- 
tion," and the expression of a fear that bv the denial of 
such privilege, "our freedom should be turned into bondage 
and our ancient privileges so infringed yt they will never 
arrive at our posterity." The address is said to have been 
written by minister James. It bears marks of his strong 
devotion to freedom. It is worthy of enduring remem- 
brance as one of the luminous monuments of the ardent love 
of this people for liberty. The wise ai chitect knows where 
and how to iml)cd in the deej) foundations of the rising 
structure, strong bars of iron, to hold fast the springing arch- 
es, the ninssive walls, the spacious dome, the lofty spires. 
Like such a bar this "address" seems imbedded in the 
foundations of the fair tem])le of American Freedom. The 



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expression of 1685 would develop bv the laws of growth 
into the "Declaration" of 1776. 

It does not appear that the Town recognized Leisler as 
Governor. The trustees' vote, September 2d, 1689, (page 
240) authorized the committee to order and impower Capt. 
Leisler "to secure for this town's use, what monies is to be 
found in New York unjustly by tax or taxes levied on this 
town." In singular contrast the entry on page 260, Feb. 13, 
1680, expressly names Sloughter Governor. Although the 
town had been constrained to pay an extortionate price for 
a Patent from Dongan, the stern spirits that panted for free- 
dom still hoped and still fought on with unabated ardor for 
an assembly of representatives of the people. Neither 
Thomas James or Samuel Mulford (mighty names !) would 
tamely surrender the rights of a free born people to arbi- 
trary power. The angel of American Liberty was unfolding 
his wings preparatory to a flight above the power of servile 
Governors, base-minded Lords or irresponsible Kings. 

The student of history will scrutinize with intense inter- 
est the experience of this community in the improvement of 
lands in common. The compact village settlement, with 
small, narrow home lots, was convenient for the purposes of 
mutiial protection, social eujoymet, education of the youth, 
religious worship, pursuit of the whale fishery and common 
improvement of outlying lands. On the one Main street 
the Colony was planted. It grew chiefly northward, and in 
two score years extended a mile in length. Outside of these 
home lots, the lands were tilled and pastured before and 
after allotment, in fields enclosed by fence made by the 
owners in proportion to their ownership. Each owner 
tilled his just number of acres to which he was entitled in 
tlie field devoted to cultivation, as he Avould have done had 
he fenced it separately. Each one turned in the number 



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of cattle to which he was entitled according to the stint 
fixed for each, on the basis of his ownership in the lands 
pastnred. The popular idea that a common of pasturage 
is an unlimited, unregulated right, is a popular mistake. 
"A right of common without stint cannot exist in law," vid. 
note Blackstone's Comm. vol. 2, p. 34, etc. Just as to a 
recent date the lands of Montauk wore stinted for pasturage; 
so in early days the lands referred to were stinted for pas- 
turage. Jonathan T. Gardiner kindly loaned me the April 
number of the "Magazine of American History" for the 
year 1883. The article therein entitled "Montauk and the 
Common Lands of East-Hampton," was contributed by Prof. 
John Franklin Jameson, of John Hopkins University. 
With much learning the improvement of lands in common 
here is sought to be traced back to New and Old England 
and the Germanic races who "Migrated to Britain." 

The circumstances were favorable for such improvement ; 
the location of the village settlement, the common interest 
and convenience of tlie people, and their general honesty all 
tended to make this experiment successful and lasting. But 
the infirmities of human nature come to the front in every 
age — in every race. The boys in meeting were sometimes 
unruly and required "looking after," by James Bird. (See 
page 113.) The owners of these lands seem to have re- 
quired "looking after" in matters of fencing and common 
improvement. Very stringent rules were enacted — (pp. 102, 
148, 165, 185, 217, 225, 265, 346, 401.) 

Severe penalties were ordained — (pp. 125, 130, 148, 160, 
209, 226, 266, 400.) 

Fences were subject to the stern censorship of inspectoi-e 
— (}). 191.) Delinquents in fcuicing were exposed by ths 
initial letters cut on the fence — (p. 234.) 



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Yet all these failed to enforce the performance of the 
common duty, trespass occurred, fences were sometimes 
poorly made and sometimes not made at all. As time rolled 
on — except Montauk and certain meadows — the lands came 
to be improved in severalty and not in common. The Vil • 
lap;e system of settlement, the saving of fence, the saving of 
many drivers of cattle, the scattered lots of land, the habits 
of the people, seemed to call for the perpetuation of com- 
mon improvement. The failure of the experiment here 
under most favorable circumstances, is in itself a strong 
testimony agaii st communism or any like system, that seeks 
to substitute the common in place of the several improve- 
ment of lands by their owners. 

The Records abound in evidence tliat whaling continued 
to be an increasing and prosperous entei-prise. Several 
companies were eng;iged in this perilous pursuit ; young 
men came from Connecticut, New Jersey and other locali- 
ties to share in the hazard and excitement of the whale 
chase, and often married wives at East Hampton. Farming 
and shoemaking soon attracted much attention, yet whaling 
was second only to agriculture. (See pages 77, 79, 86, 94, 
95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 119, 120, 152, 153. 

Incidentally through the accounts, we learn of events 
transpiring of which tliere is no other record. In 1682 we 
find a charge of £26 13s. OOd "to ye Carptr yt makes the 
gallery for the church," showing with other items' that the 
people had been rebuilding and enlai'ging their church and 
constructing a gallery therein. (See pages 108-9'-10-ll.) 
Boards were carted from Northwest, and 1)arrels carted 
down there; (see page HI) showing that their harbor or 
landing place at that time was Northwest. Tluit there 
was a Fort, we know by the charge on ]iag(^ 107 : "Steph- 
en Hand for ye Gate of "ye fort $0-5-00." 



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That tliey bad a caunoii termed "Great gonn," loaded at 
Moutauk by Joseph Osborn ; carted thence to Northwest 
by "John Cerles team" and "John Millers Sen," we find 
from charges therefor, entered on page 247. 

I find no positive recorded evidence locating the fort. 
I think probable it was near the chnrcli, if it did not en- 
close it. There the men carried their • arms on the Sab- 
bath at their meeting. That was the central rallying point 
when the New England settlements were assailed by the 
Indians, and a central point in East-Hampton. (See pages 
32 and 54, Vol. 11.) Just south were the graves of the 
•dead, now extended over the site of church and fort, (if fort 
there was), as age after age enlarged the city "where the 
rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep." It is stated in the 
chronicles of East-Hampton that the burying ground liad 
never been fenced. (See page 28.) June 16th, 1685, there 
was a vote to fence it "with a good peeke pale." (See 
page 167.) It seems probable it was then fenced. Forts 
were constructed by setting firmly in the ground lialf- 
tree sticks, some 8 to 12 feet long. Being split they wore 
flat on the one side like a "pale," being sharpened on 
the top they were "peeke" or peeked. Dwelling houses 
here were so fortified and enclosed. (See pages 71, 301, 
Vol. I.) The burying ground was ordered to be so en- 
closed. It is net improbable that the enclosure of fort 
and burying place was then made by continuous lines of 
"pales." The early burial grounds were near the residence 
of tlie settlers. They were chosen for the purpose of being 
accessible ; often on a hill as a conspicuous reminder of 
mortality, and an incentive to the living to defend to the 
death the graves of their dead from the savage foe. Nor is 
it certain, as has been charged, that the Puritans deliber- 
ately selected desolate, unsightly or unsuitable locations for 



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this purpose, and with intent to exhibit disregard to the 
memory or sacredness of tlie dead. The vote referred to is 
as truly significant of the reign of the finer feelings as the 
vote of the town in April, 1G85, when Thos. Squire was siclv, 
that his taxes "were remitted," (see page 164) is evidence 
of ; ractic.al benevolence. Beneath the austere self-con- 
trolled demeanor of the Puritan, there breathed a gentle 
tenderness for the child of misfortune, a sacred reverence to 
the memory and the ashes of the dead. 

June Kith, 1696, Minister James died. He had been 
partially disabled so as to require an assistant in the min- 
istrj' for some years. For nearly half a century he hacl 
been an able and devout minister to his people, intelligent 
in the understanding of their rights as free-born English- 
men, fearless in their defence. Oidy with his last breath 
went out his watchful regard as their minister. In attesta- 
tion of his conscious discharge of duty, his intrepid soul 
prompted the desire to be so buried as to rise facing his 
people on the resutrection m^rn. 

In September, 1696, Rev. Nathaniel Huuttiug came to 
East-Hampton and commenced his ministry of fifty years 
there. He was wise in counsel, diligent ii4 study, faithful 
in doing his work, devout in spirit and an untiring chroni- 
cler of the church and settlement. All accessions to the 
church, marriages, baptisms and deaths for half a century 
liH minutely recorded. In thiis, he was faithlul unto death. 
To t'lie historian and genealogist his record is invaluabh% 
and his work solid and enduring. 

To these Puritans the voice of the minister Avas grave, 
his teaching serious ; but the voice of the ocear, on whose 
shore they lived, was not less solemn. Within its depths 
countless humun lives had perished. Their sad fate seemed 
to invite the desponding to join them there. The fascina- 



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tion was strangely attractive to the disordered mind, and 
often impelled to self-destruction. Its stormy rcjar hushed 
aud awed the thoughtless. To the great souls who panted 
for freedom, it s])oke encouragement. Its illimitable ex- 
panse symbolized the vastness of their thoughts. Its re- 
sistless wave was an emblem of the peo})le's might. To 
the devout it spoke of the Almighty Maker. Its seeming 
([uiet was beguiling as that of the serpent. The storm of 
its wrath who could withstand ? Its soft evening murmur 
lulled the weary tc; rest. The imceasing beat of its billows 
echoed in the ears of the living. In its ebbing tides the 
souls of their dying had gone out. Over the graves of their 
dead rose the moan of its anthem. The fearful mysteries 
of ocean, mutable, majestic, measureless, are unuttterable. 
From the days of ministers James and Huntting to the 
present, the thougiits of the prayerful might read : 

" And musing here I dream 
Of voj'agers on a stream 

From whence is no returning. 
Under seajcd ordci's going, 
Loolciug forward little knowing. 

Looking back with idle yearning. 
And I pray tliat every venture, 
The port of peace ma^' enter, 

That safe from snag aud fall, 
Aud syren haunted Islet, 
And rock, the unseen Pilot 

May guide us one and all." 

Bimuge-Hampton, Sept. 30th, 1887. 

H. P. Hedges. 



CHAPTER V. 



Introduction to Vol. Ill, of Town Recobds — 1702-1734. 



The Mother Country, p. 70. The plague in London, p. 11 
The great f re of 1()<!(I, j)- 71. The ivars, p. 71. Emigra- 
tion, causefi of, p. 71. The poioer of Great Britain predom- 
inates, p. 73. Samuel Blidford, p. 74. Simplicity of man- 
ners, p. 74. Genealogy, 2^- 75. Trade, comvnerce, manu- 
factures, p. 77. The Church, p. 70. Structure raised in 
1717, p. 81. Account of, p. 81. 



The second volume of printed records of the Town of East- 
Hampton overlapped the commencement of the Eighteenth 
Century a few months only. The preceeding hundred years 
had been eventful in the History of Great Britain. Through 
the long reign of Elizabeth closing at her death, in 1603, 
the lustre of her name and nation shone undimmed. The 
reign of the four Kings of the House of Stuart was from 
commencement to conclusion a strife by them to establish 
regal irresponsible power on the ruins of representative 
government. The 1st James weak, pedantic, "the wisest 
fool in Christendom," "was a king for himself alone." The 
1st Charles, whose tyranny was equalled by his perfidy, his 
duplicity, his obstinacy, judicially blind, went to death on 
the scaffold. The 2nd Charles, and 2nd James, both disso- 
lute, both professing Episcopacy but secretly or openly 
Catholics, both foresworn, both pensioners of France, dis- 
honored and disgraced their country and sold its rightful 
supremacy to its foes. The Commonwealth for a time up- 
held the ancient power and glory of the British name among 



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the uatioDS. After the Eevolution of 1G88 Parliamentary 
rights were firmly established. The Prince of Orange gave 
to England the grandenr of his gr(>at name and England 
gave to William and Mary the devotion tliat the long heroic 
strife of the house of Orange so well deserved. 

In 1603, 1625, 1665, with wide desolation the plague vis- 
ited londou. In 1666 the great lire there burned 13,200 
dwellings and over two hundred thousand people were 
houseless. Taxation on rich and poor bore Jieavily. On 
every hearth and at times on every pane of glass a tax was 
levied. Within and without the British Isles, by sea and 
land, wars raged. In Germany a continuous thirty years 
war had been waged, terminating in 1648 in the Peace of 
Westphalia between France, Germany and Sweden. From 
the accession of William and Mary in 1688 to the death of 
Queen Anne in 1714 there were only four and a half years 
of peace. 

Emigration to the North American colonies was escape 
from the desolating pestilence of the old world, from its 
consuming fires, its grinding taxation, its iucessant wars, its 
abounding debauchery. The terrors of the tomahawk and 
scalping knife exceeded not those of European wars. In 
1683, the Eevocation of the Edict of Nantes expelled the 
best protestant blood of France. The besom of war in 
Germany augmented the tide of Protestant emigration from 
thence. The weakness, the debauchery, the despotism, the 
treachery of the Stuart reigns impelled the best citizens of 
the British Isles to find a home in the new world where 
distance alleviated the anguish of National dishonor and 
degradation. 

Exceptional causes besides thosje named combined to 
swell the tide of emigration from Holland, Germany, France 
and the British Isles. The records contain names repre- 



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sentative of varied nationalities. We have found Scliellinx 
and Van Scoy (Van Scliaick) Dutchmen ; Dominy and Sher- 
rill, Irishmen ; Baillerjeau, a Frenchman, perhaps Hugonot. 

The early settlers of East-Hampton well knew the cor- 
ruption and infamy of the Stuart Kings. They knew sonie- 
cliiug of the line ot European j)olicy and courts, something 
of the intent of the Protestant league, whether its battal- 
ions were under the banner of the great Gustavus, the Prince 
of Orange or Charles XII. The aims of beligereiit powers 
in the wars of the past or present were not unknown to 
them. Lion Gardiner had served in the bloody battles 
fought in Flanders — " William Fithian, according to the 
traditions of the family was a native of Wales, a soldier in 
Cromwell's army, present at the execution of Charles I, and 
after the restoration of Charles II, prescribed as a regicide 
and obliged to flee his country." At the opening of this 
volume Joshua Garlicke had just died, "about one hundred 
years old." Ben Conlding survived till 1707. Jeremiah 
Conkling, Sen., died in 1712, 78 years old. The same year 
died Eobert Dayton "about 84 years old," Thomas Osborne 
"about 90 years," Stephen Hedges survived until 1734, "not 
wanting quite six months of a hundred years old." 

Those and others were familiar with the early settlers 
and with the narratives of Gardiner and Fithian, with the 
story of wars, of policies, of generals, of martial achievement. 
In the long evenings, at the huskings, at the fii ©side, tradi- 
tion and legend old beguiled the tardiness of time. The 
aged listened intent, the young amazed. Their story was 
never old and never dull. 

Looking back from the year 1700, the review is a history 
of martial conflict by aea and land wherein England's part 
was often inglorious if not disgraceful. With the early 
years of the 18th century, under Queen Anne, the danger- 



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ously preclominatiiig power of France aud Spain were lim- 
ited, and victory so long witheld alighted on the banner of 
England. At the battle of Blenheim, (1704) Eugene and 
Marlborough broke the power of France, and the same year 
the British fleet took Gibraltar, over which, to the lasting 
humiliation of Spain and the enduring honor of England, 
her flag still floats. The victory of Marlborough at Ramil- 
ies in 1706, of Eugene at Turin the same year, and of the 
two in 1708 at Oudenarde, and at Malplaquet, forced Louis 
XIV, of France, to assent in 1713 to the treaty of peace at 
Utrecht. France then ceded to England, Newfoundland, 
Nova Scotia, and Hudson's Bay territory ; and Spain, Gib- 
raltar and Minorca. By the same treaty the claims of France 
to the country of the five nations in the colony of New York 
were surrendered. Thus began the accession of French 
America by England, which continued until all the Canadas 
were lost to France and North America became overwhelm- 
ingly Protestant. Although the treaty of Aix La Chapelle, 
at the end of the long war in 1748 left the possessions of 
the combatants substantially as at the commencement of 
hostilities, yet the treaty of Paris in 1763, at the end of the 
French and Indian war began in 1755, gave to England the 
Canadas and all the possessions of France east of the Miss- 
issippi, besides Florida, then ceded to her by Spain. 

Thus the wars waged by Roman Catholic powers for 
two and a half centuries, intended to crush out Protestant- 
ism from the face of the earth, ignominiously failed of their 
purpose. Not armies or armadas, anathema or interdict, 
rack or dungeon, inquisition or torture, ban or banishment, 
outlawry or treason, could conquer the nations or wrest 
Northern America from the realm of Freedom. The ele- 
mental powers, even "the stars in their courses fought for 
liberty." 



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Samuel Mulforcl born in 1645, taking liis seat as Member 
of Assembly in June, 1705, rapid in specoli, vehement in 
utterance, hasty in temper, positive in opinion. Republican 
in sentiment, puritan to the core, waged unequal war against 
the Governors Cornbury and Hunter from that time until his 
second expulsion from the house in 1720. His contention 
for freedom, his voyage to England, the circulation of his 
memorial there, the consequent repeal of the tax or duty 
on oil, the rejoicing of the whalemen, the ardent devotion 
of his constituents, the unseduced fidelity of Capt. Mulford 
to uphold their rights ; all these are matters of history oc- 
curring within the period covered by this volume. Mulford 
was an old whaleman entitled to be called Capt. from his 
command in this perilous pursuit, as well as from his com- 
mand of a militia company. Fearless, adventurous by na- 
ture and training, his broadened views of life and business 
naturally attracted him to the fields of commercial enter- 
prise. As early as 1702 he had erected a warehouse at 
Northwest, the then harbor of the town before Sag Harbor 
as such was known. (See page 28.) It is probable a wharf 
had been constructed there previously. In April 1700 
Abraham Schellinx had made application for a permit to 
build one, and in 1705 he was master of and running the 
sloop "Endeavor." 

The simple manners of the time is shown in the Records 
by both positive and negative testimony. In all these three 
volumes one christened name, and one only, precedes the 
surname. The multiplication of names was an afterthought 
of later times. Ofl&cial titles and the prefix "Goodman" 
occur often. At page 199 of this volume for the first time 
succeeding the name of Josiah Hobart and unapplied pre- 
viously to a townsman, is found the title "Gentleman." 
Hobart had been high Sheriff of the County more than a 



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score of years anterior thereto, was venerable for age, prob- 
ably disabled for manual labor, and deemed worthy of the 
appellation. On page 264 the same word is used as de- 
scriptive of Thomas Chatfield. His education, his descent 
from honoied ancestry, and superior intellect, constrained 
the cotemporary scribe to distinguish him specially as a 
"gentleman." He was afterwards appointed a Justice of 
the Peace, and in 1738 as one of the Judges of the Court of 
Common Pleas for Suffolk County and known as "Judge 
Chatfield." He held this office until his death, Jan. 12th, 
1764. His son John was a Justice of the Peace appointed 
in the reign of George III, and continued until the Revolu- 
tion annulled royal authority. On page 366 we read "John 
Wheeler Gentleman." Honored by his fellow citizens re- 
peatedly with public trusts as committeeman, as captain, 
as town trustee, as Supervisor, venerable for age, he well 
deserved the distinction. He died June 18th, 1727 aged 
about 80. His descendents removed to Smithtown, L. I., 
and there now reside. (See page 423). 

GENEALOGY. 

The light given to genealogical investigation by these 
volumes of the printed records, and eminently so of this 
present one, is priceless. The vote of July 6, 1655, (Vol. I, 
page 84,) shows that Thomas Osborn, Sen. was father of 
Thomas, Jr. But Oct. 27, 1658, Ih, p. 158, the Jr. is chosen 
constable, proving him then of full age and his father older 
probably by at least a score of years. There is a tradition 
in the Osborn family that the Thomas Sen. removed to and 
died at New Haven, Ct. John Osborn was another son of 
Thomas Sen., as is shown on page 300, Ih. Benjamin Os- 
born was also son of Thomas, Sen., as appears on page 406, 
Ih. After 1686, and up to 1694, the name of Thomas, Jr., 
does not occur in the records, implying thereby that only 



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one Thomas Osborn resided iu the town and lending nega- 
tive evidence to the tmth of the tradition mentioned. That 
a Jeremiah Osborn, Jr., of New Haven, married Elizabeth 
Talmage, of this town, June 15th, 1724, is evidence of so- 
cial intercourse between the Osbom families of the two 
places, lending further confirmation. The mention of 
Thomas Osborn, Jr., July 27th, 1694, (page 309, Vol. II,) 
refers to Thomas, of WainsQott, son of John. And the first 
Thomas Osborn, Jr., undoubtedly is the Thomas dying 
"Sept. 25th, 1712, aged about 90 years," mentioned in the 
record of deaths made by Hev. Nathaniel Hunttiug. 

William Hedges by will dated March 17, 1674, gave 
property to his widow Rose, to four daughters, to his eldest 
son Stephen and son Isaac. That Stephen is the one who 
died July 7th, 1734, "n(jt wanting quite six months of a 
hundred years old." Data for tracing his descendents 
abound. Isaac son of William died intestate and letters of 
Administration on his estate issued in March 1676-7 .to his 
widow Johanna, and her father, Josiah Barnes who also 
were guardians of a family of unnamed children. To iden- 
tify these unknown children is the problem. In Vol. II, p. 
492 of the records, Jan. 16, 1700-1, occurs a deed from the 
aforesaid Stephen 2 to Isaac 3, son and heir of Isaac 2, de- 
ceased, which identiJ[ies that grantee as a grandson of Wil- 
liam and probably the Isaac Hedges, Sen. 3, who died Nov. 
22d, 1726. Isaac Jr., 4 (son of the latter probably) married 
Phebe Parsons, Feb. 6, 1723. Their son Jacob 5, deceased, 
baptized Sept. 23d, 1738, died May 18, 1823, aged nearly 

84 years, had a son Jacob 6, who died Sept. 6, 1869, over 

85 years old, who had a son Albert L. Hedges 7, now living 
on Pantigo Lane. The deed named was the only connect- 
ing link long lacking to trace the unknown children of Isaac 
the intestate. March 3d, 1703, this same Isaac 3 conveys 



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t<} lii« well-beloved (sou) "Samuel," (see Vol. Ill, p. 57,) 
uamed Ih. p. 266 as a "carpeuter," engaged in building a 
house at Montauk about 1713 Ih, p. 296 and 7 and resided 
there March 12, 1713-17 Ih. p. 368. This is the "Governor 
Hedges" of Montauk known in tradition, great grandfather 
of the late Benjamin Hedges, deceased, of Amagansett, 
.formerly of Montauk, and father of the Benjamin and Jon- 
athan formerly of Montauk. 

As instances of the genealogical value of these volumes, 
we cite the following : 

Vol. I, John Hand, Sen's will, pp. 178, 17U, 180. Nathl. Street's will, 
]}. 189. Wni. Edwards' will, p. 320. Thos. Kose, son and heir of Eobert 
•i'i'd. Joseph and Stephen Osborn, brothers, p. 243. Enoch, son of Wm. 
Eithian, p. 275. Benj. and Joseph Osborn, brothers, p. 281. Steven 
and John Hand, brothers, p. 284. Geo. Miller, dead, p. 302. Andrew 
and John Miller, brothers, p. 324. Thos. Edwards, son of Wm., p. 390. 
Thos. Hand, son of John, p. 497. 

Vol. II, James Dimou, son of Thomas, p. 113. Nathaniel Baker, son 
of Thomas, p. 115. John and Thomas, sons of William Edwards, p. 138. 
John, son of John Osborn, p. 241. Joseph and Jonathan Osborn, sons 
of William, of Boston, p. 256. Thomas Chattleld, son of Thomas, de- 
ceased, p. 2<)7. Josiah Edwards, grandson of William and son of John, 
p. 285, 308. Thomas Osboi'n and Ephraim, brothers, p. 318. Thomas 
Edwarils, son of John jand grandson of William, p. 365. Thomas Ed- 
wards, record of will, p. 385. Caleb and Thomas Osborn, brothers, p. 
415. John Stretton, son of John, p. 439. John Stretton, Jr., son of Ste- 
phen, p. 442. Thomas Multord, son of William, p. 466. Enoch and 
Samuel Eithian, sons oi William, p. 477. 

Vol. III. Thomas and Edward Osborn, brothers, p. 2. John Miller, 
oldest son of George, deceased, p. 21. Samuel Parsons, Jr., son of John 
p. 37. Samuel Hedgeis, son of Isaac, p. 56. John Brooks, son of John 
and grandson of Richard, p. 78. Tliomas Osborn, Jr., oldest son of John 
p. 119. Joseph Hand, son of Stephen, deceased, p. 129. Solomon Stret- 
ton, oldest son of Eichard, deceased, who was oldest son of Bichard, 
p. 141. Josiah Fithian, soli of Samuel, p. 162. David and Lewis Conk- / 

ling, sons of Jeremiah, p. 174. Thomas Baker, son of Thomas, p. 189. ^ 

Jonathan Baker, son of Nathaniel, p. 215. Thomas Barnes, son of Wil- 
liam, deceased, p. 230. John Coukling, son of Ben who is son of Ben, 
p. 231. Daniel Dajton, son of Samuel, p. 2&3. Stephen Leek, brother 
of Ebenezer, deciised, p. 278. Hezekiah Miller, brother of Nathan, 
nephew of John, p. 289. Nathaniel Hand, son of James, p. 291. Thom- 
as Osborn, son of Benjamin, p. 308. Thomas Osborn, brother of Eph- 
raim, p. 321. William Edwards, sou of Thomas, brother of Daniel, p. 
336. Thomas Edwards, grandson of William and cousin of Daniel, p. 
338. John Miller, son of Gt^orge, p. 342. Thomas Osborn, son of John, 
p. 342. Richard Slia \v, son of Richard, d(H!eased, p. 361. John Eilwanls, 
son of John, p. 373. John Coukling, fatlitu' in-law of Nathan Miller, p. 
3S7. Tliomas Whceb-i-, s<>n of Joim, [>. 423. Obadiah Osborn, sou of 
Ephraim, p. 487. 



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The policy of England to cripple the commerce, trade and 
manufactures of the colony to its injury, and the agrandize- 
ment of England, was now barely begun. By the ordinance 
of 1651, re-enacted in 1660, Parliament restricted exporta- 
tion from America to English, Irish and Colonial vessels, 
substantially excluding "foreign ships from all American 
harbors.' The more valuable colonial staj^les known as 
"enumerated articles," were required to be shipped exclu- 
sively "to England or some English colony." With few 
exceptions exportation to the colonies was prohibited, ex- 
cept in "English vessels," — Hildretlis History U. S., Vol. I, 
p. 473. In 1699, by act of Parliament, it "prohibited the 
transfer of domestic woolens from one colony to another ; 
or the export of colonial wool or cloths to any foreign coun- 
try."— /Z>. Vol. II, p. 213. In 1719 the House of Commons 
resolved, "that the erection of manufactories in the colonies 
tended to lessen their dependency on Great Britain." — Ih. 
p. 297. The act prohibiting transportation of woolen goods 
from one colony to another did not include hats, but in 1732 
they were included in the j)rohibition, and colonial hatters 
forbidden to take more than two apprentices at once. — lb. 
p. 325. Since East-Hampton was prohibited from purchas- 
ing manufactured articles from another colony, or at exorb- 
itant rates only from England, necessity constrained a 
supply of wants by home manufacture which had made great 
progress at the commencement of the 18th centu?'y. This 
explains the great number of weavers, cordwinders, (shoe- 
makers) coopers, carpenters, and the presence of tailors, a 
hatter, glover, glazier and brickmaker, Slc, in the town. 
The subjoined table of persons engaged in the mechanic 
arts may be convenient for reference. At the commence- 
ment of the eighteenth century the productive and mechan- 
ic arts had made great progress in the Colony, and its wants 



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were mainh self-supplied. This may be nrleaiiod from the 
records, and is shown in the folhnvino; list taken from this 
volume: 

Survoj^or, Ehonozer Look, page 5 .lohn'Edwards, Cordwindor, 

Nathl. Doniiny, " 389 

Coopor, Wm. Schcllengor, " 38 

Thoe. Dibblo, " 74 

" Jacob Sohellongpr, " 110 

• " " " 199 

Plasterer, J as. Barber, " 24 

Glover, John Evjius, " lOf! 

Hatter, Nathan CJooper. " 389 

Briekmaker, Isaac Barnes, •' 122 

Glazier, Samuel Russel, " 1H7 

Tailor, Joseph Osborne, " 130 



Isaac Mulford, 13G, 418 

Blacksmith, Robert Hudson " 113 

Merchant, JacoV) Baillergean, 83 

Peter Murdock, " 389 

Doctor, Jacob ]5aillergean, " 129 

Carpenter, Ephraim Edwards, 17 

" Ebenezer Belding, 113 

'■' John Jones, " 105 

" Isaac Hedges, " 125 

" Enoch Fithian, " 128 

" Dai:. Buriiitt, " 227 

" Samuel Hedges, " 226 

" i^ Jeremiah Mulford, 415 

" ;E Matthew Mulford, 41() 

" 5 Cornelius Conkling 415 

" D Eleazar Miller, 415 

" p^ Jeremiah Hedges, 480 - 

Josiah Holtart, Gentleman, p. 199 

Thos. Chattiehi, " " 264 

John Wheeler, " " 3<i6 



Matthias Burnltt, " 

Robt. Moore, " 

Geo. Smith. " 
Nathl. Baker, Weavei 
Thomas Diblde, 

Danl. Bishop, " 

Josliua Garlick, " 

Lewis Conkling, " 
Geo. Dibble, 

John Davis. Jr., " 

Thos. Barnes, " 

Isaac Barnes, " 

Nathl. Barnes, " 

Nathl. Bishop. " 

Ichabod Leek, " 

Abiel Carle, •' 

John Conkling, " 
Recomponce Barnes, 

Nathl. Doming', " 

Stephen Leek, " 
Nathl. Hand, 

Danl. Edwards. " 

John Davis, " 

John Conkling, Jr. " 
Thos. Wheeler, 

Josiah Osborn, " 

Lion Leper, " 

Ephi'aim Osljorn, " 
John Conklin, Tapster, 



73 
397 
136 
265 
457 
37 
38 
42 
46 
70 
84 
121 
135 
121 
165 
183 
183 
183 
199 
229 
26{. 
278 
291 
337 
339 
397 
412 
430 
474 
486 
487 
499 



THE CHURCH. 



Sectarian, intolerance and persecution had burned as a 
consuming fire over Europe two centuries prior to the reign 
of William of Orange who although an ardent Calvinist saw 
with far more charity the theological differences of his age. 
He was too great to bo intolerant, too charitable to delight 
in persecution, too truly devout to think God worshipped 
by executing vengeance on brethren, differing in form of 
worship from him, because of the difference. Towering high 
above the petty religious spite and nariowness of his age, 
he suffered no persecution that his great heart could pre- 



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vent. At tLis day it seems inconceivable how after the res- 
toration of 1660, John Bunyan, in Bedford jail, could have 
been imprisoned twelve long years for preaching the gospel 
of Jesus Christ. Not less strange and incredible seems the 
imprisonment of Richard Baxter in 1685 on the charge of 
"sedition" for writing his "Paraphrase of the New Testa- 
ment." Macauley has fixed on the enduring page the char- 
acter and conduct of the infamous Jeffries, browbeating, 
boisterous, brutal, despotic, vindictive, remorseless, coarse, 
the servile tool of the intolerant 2d James, in contrast with 
the sweet and simple dignity of the learned, refined and 
venerable Baxter. In all succeeding ages the devout have 
drank inspiration from the sacred allegory of Bunyan 
wrought out in Bedford Jail and loved more warmly the 
writings of the spiritual Baxter because they "contended for 
the faith once delivered to the Saints." 

The second minister of the church in East-Hampton, 
coming in 1696, ordained Sept. 13th, 1698, with character- 
istic fidelity has recorded the names of his little flock of 
church members thus : "Those that were communicants 
when I, Nathaniel Huntting was ordained in East-Hampton ; 

MALES NUMBBE. FEMALES NUMBER. 

X Mr. Baker 1 — The wife of Mr. John Stretton 8 

— Mr. John Mulford 2 X Mrs. Mary wife of J. Mulford, 9 

— Wm. Hedges 3 X Mrs. Baker 10 

— Lieut. Fithian 4 11 The wife of Sam Fithian 11 

X Goodman Barnes 5 X The widow Carle 12 

— James Diamont 6 X The widow Garlick 13 

— X The wife of Dan Osborn 14 

Male members 6 R The wife of Eben Leek 15 

X Tlie wife of Capt. Ilobart. . . .10 

FEMALES NUMBER. X The wifo of Mr. Ab. Sheilink 17 

X Widow Osborn of Waiuscott. 1 — The wife of Nathl. Baker 18 

R The wife of Th. Diamont 2 — The wife of Lieut. Fithian. . .19 

X The wife of John Miller 3 R The wife of Th. Edwards, Sen. 20 

X The widow Diament 4 — The wife of John Horlingtun 21 

X The wife of James Diament. . 5 — The wife of Goodman Barnes 22 
R The wife of Corn. Stretton. . . G — 

E The widow Harris 7 Female members 22 

The church of 1717, erected on the south-east side of the 



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Main street nearly opposite Clinton Academy, was then said 
to be the largest and most costly church edifice on Long- 
Island. Thompson and Prime, historians, both so record. 
Externally it was 45 by 80 feet, covered first with clap- 
boards, afterwards with three feet cedar shingles fastened 
with hand-wrought nails. The tower at the west end, built 
separate from the foundation, projected slightly beyond the 
line of the main building. On each side of the belfry were 
arched openings and the belfry floor or deck was substan- 
tially covered with lead. Above this square tower rose a 
lofty sexagonal steeple. Above that a long massive red 
cedar shaft or spire. Above that the iron spindle on which 
hung a large copper vane with numerals cut therein denf)t- 
ing the year of the town's settlement and erection of the 
church thus : "1649-1717." One diagonal dial facing the 
street told the time and the hammer beat the hour on the 
clear sweet toned bell. Originally the entrance was by a 
door in the middle of the south-west side. Thereafter, in 
1822, when renovated, the entrance was b}^ doors on each 
side of the projecting tower at the west end. The timber 
of this church was massive, of white oak largely, the beams 
10x10 and the sills and jjosts much larger. The window 
frames were of red cedar 4x6. The frame, cut on Gardi- 
ner's Island, was said to have been the free gift of the pro- 
prietor, a fact cited to show the scarcity of large timber in 
the town. In recognition of this magnificent gift, the soci- 
ety, when pews were made, devoted one of the most eligible 
to the exclusive use of the owner of the Island, so occupied 
for generations, known as the "Gardiners Island Pew." 
This church, raised in 1717, was not occupied until the next 
year. In Minister Huutting's Church Records occurs tliis 
significant entry : "1718, June 22, Sam. Parsons, Jr. owned 
the covenant. This was the first person that owned the 



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covenant in tlie new meeting' lionse." A like entry, dated 
April 13th, 1718, not alludino- to tlie new house, indicated 
that it was not then occupied. "The halfway covenant" is 
probably the covenant named. In the colony of Massachu- 
setts and in New Haven, church membership was a prereq- 
uisite to qualify for voting;. As all wished to exercise this 
privilege, ways were devised whereby the strict rule was 
enlarged. A profession of belief in God, in the divinity of 
Jesus, in the sacred scriptures, with a promise -'to train 
their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord," 
was substantially without any claim of regeneration, "the 
halfway covenant" constituting those persons taking it qiiafti 
mendiers of the church, entitled to its sacraments for them- 
selves and their children, including bap' ism and a power to 
vote as a free man and citizen. The tendency thus to sec- 
ularize the church was accelerated after the restoration by 
the '2nd Charles, who required of Massachusetts, in 16G2, 
"the repeal of the laws which restricted the privilege of 
voting and term of office to church members, and the sub- 
stitution of a property qualification instead, " and " finally 
the admission of all persons of honest lives to the sacra- 
ments of Baptism and the Lord's supper." HildretJis Hist. 
of U. S. Vol. I, p- -i'^o- Although church membership was 
never required as a qualification for voting in Last-Hamp- 
ton, the halfway covenant traveled there from Massachu- 
setts and Connecticut, and out of the desire for baptism of 
children grew in the favor of parents. The steady, serene, 
persistent opposition of Jonathan Edwards to this now 
discarded "covenant" evoked a storm that drove him from 
Northampton. 

The records of Huntting evince his intense interest in 
the progress of this church building. With exultation he 
records among infant baptisms, "1718, May 25th, a daugh- 



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ter of Cor. Coukling, Jr. Mary, Cornelius Conkling's Jr. 
daughter ye first baptized 'child in ye new meeting house, 
June 2 2d, a daughter of Sam Parsons Jr., Hannah. Sam 
Parsons cliild ye first baptized child in ye alley by ye dea- 
cons seat after ye pulpit was raised and ye deacons seat 
put up." Thus this father took the halfway covenant and 
as thereby entitled on the same day presented for baptism 
his infant daughter Hannah. There is a tradition that all 
the persons in the town liable to military duty Avere sum- 
moned and present at the church raising, and that seated 
on the sills, they filled the whole square of the foundation. 
At first there were benches for seats in the church build- 
ing. On the outsides these were replaced by large square 
wainscotted pews capped on top. Opposite the door on 
the south-west was the high pulpit in the middle of the 
north-east side, so high that Minister Hunttiug, as stated, 
records "it was raised." Over it hung the sounding board. 
The galleries were reached by stairways on each side of 
this door, and ..fterwards a second gallery was constructed 
at the ends over those first built, which in the renovation 
of 1822 were taken down. The women were seated at the 
east and men at the west end, (see p. 387.) The door in 
the south-west side was closed in the renovation of 1822 
and doors constructed at the west end opening into the 
vestibule, the centre of which was furnished with seats and 
the eastern arched opening thereof looked towards the higli 
pulpit on the east end. This middle portion of the vesti- 
bule, partitioned by itself, was devoted to the sole occu- 
pation of colored people. At each corner near the doors, 
stairways wound from the doors up to a similar vestibule, 
the centre whereof was the bell and clock tower, and the 
sides by doors opened into the galleries, the north-eastern 
gallery being set apart for the women, the south-western 



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for the meu. Two wide aisles beloAv ran from the vestibule 
to the pulpit stairs. The pulpit was loug, narrow, with a 
semi-circular enlarp;ement in the centre of its } annelled 
front, where the minister stood and was surnnninted with 
the pulpit leaf and cushion thereon, and bible on that. 

Four tall round pillars supported the pulpit. Between 
the pulpit stairs, at its ends, w^as the deacons' scat, in front 
of tliat the communion table, a simple leaf of cherrj^-tree 
wood turned up on hinges when used, when not so, turned 
down. The double row of narrow seats between the aisles 
after benches were removed were called slips. The pews 
on the sides and at the pulpit ends were untouched and 
remained the same to the end, occupied by the same fami- 
lies and their descendents, sometimes for nearly a hundred 
years, until they \v(re rented yearly near the commence- 
ment of the present century. The galleries about 8 feet 
high, with braces framed in the posts, rested on round 
turned pillars. Over them the wall was finished at right an- 
gles from the sides, starting at the eaves, then between tln^ 
galleries and over the pulpit tiie wall was arched. This 
church of 1717, graceful, symmetric, solid, enduring, stood 
until some time after 1861, nearly one hundred and fifty 
years, when the present church was constructed. On its 
taking down, the main timbers and most of the structure 
were sound, massive and easily susceptible of standing an- 
other centur}' and a half. Jonathan T. birdiuer, Esq., has 
largely and kindly contributed many foiegoing facts, to 
whom therefor and for other valuable nistoric contributions 
du-^ acknowledgement is made. He states that on the 
demolition of this venerated structure, on its southwestern 
side, the old door posts were found and the holes wherein 
had been driven the hooks on which the doors hung. The 
pastor, Rev. IS. L. Mershou, preached his last sermon iii 



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this cliurcli September 1st, 1861, from the text Psalm xliv, 
V. 1 : "We have heard Avith our ears, O God, our lathers 
have told us what work thou didst in their days, in the 
times of old." Five generatious of men had worshipped 
in their simple sincere way. Avithin the Avails of this church. 
They had attested the earnestness of prayer, the ugony of 
contrition, the depth of penitence, the entirety of conse - 
cration, the sublimity of faith, the presence and power of 
the Eternal Spirit. Grave, thoughtful, sincere, these wor- 
shippers 

"Ask uo organ's soulless breath 

To droue the themes of life and death ; 

No altar caudle lit by day, 

No oruato wordsman's rhetoric play ; 

No cool philosophy of speech 

To double tasked idolaters, 

Themseh'es their gods aud worshippers." 

In the devotion of this colony to the cause of human 
freedom, to the industrial and mechanic arts; to the edu- 
cation of the youth, to the promotion of virtue, to the Avor- 
ship of Jehovah, her ancient records certify in Avords the 
most positive and clear. The stock from Avhence they 
sprang Avas of the choicest blood of their fatherland. By 
inheritance they claimed the institutions of freemen. An- 
c astral piety had consecrate^ to God, themselves and their 
posterity forever. Their free birthright, their schools of 
instruction, their church of the ever living God, they must 
transmit in their purity to coming generations. "Who 
Avould Avish that his country's existence had otherAvise be- 
glm. Who Avould desire the power of going back to the 
ages of fable ? Who Avould Avish for an origin obscured in 
the darkness of antiquity ? Who Avould Avisli for other em- 
blazoning of his country's heraldry or other ornaments of 
her genealogy, than to be able to say that her first exist- 
ence Avas Avith intelligence, her first breath the inspiration 
of liberty, her first principle the truth of divine religion?" 

Bridge-Hampton, December 15th, 1888. 

H. P. HEDGES. 



CHAPTEK VI. 



Introduction to Vol. IV, of Town Records — 1734-1749. 



Progress of f/ic aye, p. 86. Allottmenf of lands, p. 88. Cat- 
fie marks, p. DO. 3Iontaiik, p>- ^0. Toimi Legislation, p. 
91. A dog laiv, p). 02. The Revolution, p. 92. Old style 
changed, p. 93. Gardiner s Island annexed to East-Hmnp- 
ton, p. 94. Notices of 3Iinisters Huntting, Buel, Beecher, 
Phillips, Condit, Eleazar 3Iiller, Nathl. Oardiner, Thomas 
Wickham, Jonathan Dayton, Jonathan S. Gonkling, Abra- 
ham Parsons, Abel Huntington, 31. D., David Hedges, Jr., 
Josiah C Dayton, Samuel 3Iiller, pp. 95-97. Concluding 
remarks, p. 98. 



The events of the century covered by this volume of the 
records are noticed" in newspapers, magazines, histories and 
hiws. They are perpetuated in the memorials of courts, of 
churches, of cities. They are recorded in cemeteries on 
the headstones of graves and in enduring monumental 
structures. The rude currency of coin or paper that circu- 
lated tells of finance ; the ponderous furniture tells of hon- 
est mechanism ; the massive chimney and fireplace tells of 
abounding forest ; the wide oven's mouth of abounding sus- 
tenance ; "the moss-covered bucket that hung in the well" 
of simple tastes ; the tinder-box and steel, of rude inven- 
tion; the tallow dip candle, of limited discovery. The 
spinning wheel, large and small, sung the song of industry. 
The reel and swifts, the hatchel and crackle, the shuttle 
and loom, told the tale of household manufacture. The 
trencher and keeler and pipkin and piggin and noggin, re- 



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vealed the prevailing frugality of home life and paucity of 
foreign manufactures. The powder horn and shot bag, the 
old king's arm and the old flint-lock, tell of an age fled for- 
ever. These memorials of the early and even the later 
years covered by this volume, liad but just gone out of prac- 
tical use at its close. No introduction can minutely remind 
the reader of the many events occurring in this hundred 
and fifteen years. The stream of history runs rapid. Like 
the descending current of a mighty river we get a glimpse 
of some clifi", some bank, and are swiftly borne to another 
elevation ; to some other point, or other view. Change 
follows change, scene succeeds scene until the objects mul- 
t ply indefinitely and swiftly obscure each other by their 
multitude. Although this volume reaches to the age of 
steamboats, of friction matches and the beginning of an- 
thracite coal and raihvay travel, yet it does not reach or far 
extend beyond the time when the sickle and scythe had 
fallen before the conquering march of the reaping and 
mowing machines, when the horse rake had superceded the 
handrake ; when tJie horse power was threshing the grain, 
which by the human arm had been slowly pounded out 
with the fiail ; when ocean steamers chased the surging bil- 
low from the shore of one continent to another ; when pe- 
troleum had come to light the Avorld ; when the telegraph 
and telephone had the ear of man. Hard, grinding labor 
still laid his exacting hand upon the masses of mankind and 
claimed them for his own, Tiie wood that warmed, the 
•whale oil lamp or tallow caudle that lighted the homes of 
this fair land, the food that fed the household, the coarse 
homespun garments that protected the person from cold in 
winter and unseemly exposure in summer, were obtained at 
the cost of almost unceasing toil. The range of the news- 
paper, how narrow ! the time and ability of the masses to 



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purchase and read its issues, liow limited ! Human com- 
fort, instruction and culture were rare and costly. The 
gifted and resolute and ambitious overcame. The weak, 
the undecided, the unsusceptive overcame not. 

The wars of England with Spain began Oct. 23d, 1739, 
her war with France commencing in 1744, in which Louis- 
burg was captured in 1745, her later French and Indian 
war begun in 1755, the wars with England, of the He volu- 
tion, and of 1812 all pour their ensanguined tide in the 
historic stream running through this volume. 

ALLOTTMENT OF LANDS. 

The preference for individual over joint and commo) im- 
provement of undivided lands is often and clearl} shown 
in this volume. Long before its close the last allottment 
of undivided lands within the town purchase had been 
made. They were all made to the commonage owners ac- 
cording to their several interest and amount of acreage 
therein. They were all based upon the equitable owner- 
ship and acreage of commonage held by individuals entitled 
thereto. They were called ten, five or three acre divisions, 
according to the number of acres of undivided lands allott- 
ed to each acre of commonage. These divisions and all of 
them were made as to individuals of right ; as such entitled 
to individual and varying proportions, and in no respect 
made as of corporate or town property. History clearly 
shows, and the facts show this, even if judges or courts de- 
cide otherwise. By the patent of Dongan, lands "not ap- 
propriated to any particular person or peisons" were con- 
fined to "such as have been purchasers thereof and their 
heirs and assigns forever in proportion to their several and 
respective purchases thereof made as tenants in common," 
&c. The allottments followed this language of the Patent, 
(See Vol. II, p. 198), and nover proceeded on the theory 



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that the undivided lands were town or corporate property, 
but always individual undivided property owned by the 
purchasers thereof in proportion to their several purchases. 

David Gardiner, lawyer, statesman and historian, the 
accomplished author of the "Chronicles of East-Hampton," 
than whom no better authority can be cited, takes this 
view of the construction of the Patent in the Chronicles, p. 
67, and on page 40 declares "the lands which still remain 
undivided Avere not considered of much value. They are 
all held in tenancy in common and are subject yet to allott- 
ment among the heirs or assigns of the original purchasers 
whenever any of them may require it," — and see introduc- 
tion to Vol. I of Records, p. 10 and 11, and introduction 
to Vol. II of Eecords, pp. 5, 8, 9. In the 49 lots made and 
drawn for June 4th, 1736, called the ten acre divisicm be- 
cause ten acres of land was allotted to one acre of common- 
age, and in all subsequent and preceding divisions, this 
acreage of commonage was the measure and gave name and 
amount to the lands divided. The divisions recorded in 
this volume are nearly as follows : 

Ten acre division, June 4th, 1736, p. 17 to 27, a little 
over 7,000 acres. 

Five acre division, Feb. 6th, 1739-40, p. 64 to 81, a lit- 
tle over 3,100 acres. 

Five acre addition, Feb. 6th, 1739-40, p. 86 to 96, a lit- 
tle short 600 acres. 

Second five acre division, Feb. 6th, 1739-40, p. 96 to 110, 
a little over 2,800 acres. 

Three acre division, March 30, 1747, p. 138 to 160, a 
little short 1,800 acres. 

Thus over 15,000 acres were allotted in the years com- 
mencing in 1736 and ending in 1747, when the last called, 
the three acre division, was made. Efforts since made to 



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complete and perpetntite the list of commonage owners by 
committees tlieieto appointed have been unavailing, and 
the town Trustees seem to have claimed title to all the yet 
undivided lands in the town purchase, the value whereof 
was reckoned so small as to create little or no opposition 
or adverse claim, (pp. 82, 305, 308, 312.) 

MAKES. 

A large portion of the wealth and means of subsistence 
of the people of the town consisted in their cattle, sheep 
and horses. They were chiefly pastured on the peninsula 
of Montauk, where were kept some 2,000 cattle, : ,000 sheep, 
and many horses. Necessity required the ownership to be 
designated by ear marks, and hence these, like trade marks 
having value, became a species of property, the subject of 
town record. Among the first gifts of parents to sons was 
an ear mark entered of record. 

Montauk was some ten miles long, contained from 11,000 
to 10,000 acres, was well watered, well adapted to pastur- 
age, required little fence, and was desired as a valuable 
acquisition to the town territory at an early date. In 1658 
an agreement with the Indians was made to secure the pas- 
turage. In 1660 and 1661, after the overthroAV of the 
Montauks by the Narragansetts, and the flight for refuge 
to East-Hampton, title was acquired to the "Hither End." 
In 1670 title was acquired to a tract between Fort Pond 
and Great Pond. In 1686 the remainder was acquired, 
subject to certain reservations and Indian rights. It was 
a valuable addition to the agricultural value of the town 
territory. Its improvement was regulated by a system of 
rules appropriate, and so peculiar that Chancellor Sand- 
ford, a proprietor, declared his inability to understand 
them. It remained undivided, and owned chiefly by the 
farmers of East-Hampton and Bridge-Hampton, until the 



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year 1879, when by partition sale it passed to the purchas- 
er and present owner, Arthur W. Benson. 

LEGISLATION. 

The reader of these records will not fail to see the legis- 
lative power actively working in town meetings, in the 
meetings of the proprietors of the undivided lands, in the 
meetings of the proprietors of Montauk, and of the Trustees 
of the town. As late as 1751 the town was infested with 
wild cats and on ordinance thereof fixed a bounty to be 
paid as a i^remium for their destruction, (see pp. 167-176). 
The scope of legislation was wide, varied, penal, permissive, 
prohibitory, and embraced within its sjDhere both church 
and state. Trespass on the undivided lands at home, at 
Napeague or Montauk, was restrained, (pp. 248-266, &c.) 

The pews, not heretofore hired, about 1799, were rented, 
(p. 309, &c.) The tything men were chosen to preserve 
order in the church, especially among the irrepressible 
youth, (pp. 320-820, &c.) The town meeting fixed the min- 
ister's salary, (320-325) defined the seats for singers, (320- 
335) chose the chorister and his assistants. The vote of 
1802 directing that "Joseph Dimon be principal chorister 
and David Talmage 3d, David Sherril, David Hedges, Jr., 
and Isaac Dimon, Jr., be assistant choristers," seems like 
modern history to those who yet remember the same, and 
the melodious and mysterious pitch-pipe used by the prin- 
cipal chorister, who fairly earned the Sunday dinner voted 
him, (pp. 396-402.) 

In 1785, in the excitement of the moment probably, over 
the loss of many sheep, and moved by the indignant elo- 
quence of some sufferer, the good people of the town voted 
"that all the dogs in the town be immediately killed," p. 
247. Yet notwithstanding the narrowness shown in legis- 
lating to prohibit the export of clams, the fiery excitement 



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expressed in the resolve that idl dogs be "iiu mediately 
killed," the ivasiou of the sphere of church action in choos- 
ing "tything men" and "choristers" and "singers' seats," 
and renting pews and fixing the minister's salary, in the 
main ends sought the legislation was api^ropriate, effective, 
judicious, and of itself a school of instruction. We learn 
to swim by swimming, and as truly learn to legislate by 
legislating. 

In all these records the action of the town as a taut by 
vote to enact, to execute and enforce laws, stand out in bold 
relief. Self-government thus began, thus progressed, thus 
learned to act by acting, to govern by governing, until every 
town in this county contained within itself the indestruct- 
ble elements that grew into national union and in indepen- 
dence. If the aggregation of our population in cities shall 
continue, if in place of government by towns be substitut- 
ed the government by counties and cities, by Boards of Su- 
pervisors and Boards of Aldermen, if the governing power 
be removed from the people in towns and delegated to 
Councils and Boards as is now being«done, it may be ques- 
tioned whether the people are thereby best educated for 
self-government. The diminishing power of rural life and 
the overshadowing power of city life in legislation is ye't to 
be proved for the perpetuity of Freedom. 

THE REVOLUTION. 

After the Battle of Long Island, 28th August, 1776, 
East-Hampton and all the Island fell within the lines of 
British occupation and under their rule. The records would 
be open to insi^ection and all exjjressious therein hostile to 
the royal power Avould incur the censure of the military 
authorities. Those occurring before would naturally be 
concealed or erased. Thereafter, until November 25tli, 
1783, when New-York was evacuated, none would be per- 



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initted. Hence the absence on the records of such allu- 
sions. Yet we know by the records of the Provincial and 
Continental Congress, and other sources, that the freemen 
of this town unaniniously advocated tlie patriot cause, sus- 
tained and sympathized with their countrymen in Boston 
and elsewhere, fouoht for their liberties on laud and sea, 
the most active in the Eevolution sometimes taking refuge 
in the continental army or the towns in Connecticut, and 
thence sometimes as privateers contributing gallantly to 
the cause of freedom. East-Hampton nurtured no Tory 
and no drop of Tory blood. (See Onderdonk's Rev. Inci- 
dents of Suffolk Co., pp. 14, 19, 20, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 
43, 45, 46, 47, 48, &c.) 

The presence of the portion of the British forces quar- 
tered in Sag Harbor and the Hamptons was a standing 
menace, their conduct exasperating, their language provok- 
ing, their incessant pillaging a burden, their insults a trial, 
their brutality a grievance. The people of East-Hampton, 
not without cause, held them in utter loathing and abhor- 
rence. The discipline and conduct of the officers and men 
on the fleet in Gardiner's Bay was more respectful. Be- 
tween the people and them visits were exchanged and so- 
cial civilities were not unfrequent. At Col. Abraham Gar- 
din-ir's a company of officers of the British fleet on one 
occasion dined, there meeting some young ladies of East- 
Hampton. Until recently one of the two large black wal- 
nut tables on whiidi the provision was laid, was retained 
in use. There is a tradition that the carver at this dinner 
asked the ladies to Avhat they would be helped. The first 
(me asked replit d "a wing." The others, in unthoughtful 
diflidence, continued to answer "a wing," until the carver, 
seeing tlu^ supply short of the demand, said, "Madam, you 
will please undcM'staud that the ff)wl is not all wings." 



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That was the age of the Eagle, this of the Dove. The 
sweet peace with soft wings that now reigns would not 
reign had that age nurtured no resolute, fiery and master- 
ful souls. The spirit of Cromwell and his avenging Iron- 
sides lived in the Revolutionary regiments, panted for the 
field of conflict, exulted in the fight for freedom, shouted 
its battle cry^ — ludej^endence. If the way to freedom was 
laid only through war, who shall say that their wrath was 
wrong, and that being angry they sinned, or that their 
avenging justice was not a baptism from on high ? Thank 
God that no weak sentiment, no illusive liojDe, no deceitful 
promise unnerved their arm or stayed their march, until 
they stood on the mount of Independence, in the citadel 
of Freedom. 

CHI^GNOLGGY. 

In 1752, by act of Parliament, eleven days were dropped 
between the 2d and 14tli of September, and the year was 
to commence January 1st and not March 25th. as before. 
In reducing old style to this new style add ten days from 
1500 to 1700 and eleven days from ] 700 to 1752. March 
in old style was the 1st and June the 4th month, &c. in 
writing the year IIH, or other years preceding or succeed- 
ing, the bottom figures represent the actual year as we 
reckon and the only figures to be read. 
gardinee'r island. 

Gardiner's Island was originally an independent Manor 
or Lordship, whose proprietor had power to hold courts 
and maintain authority over his territory, by grant from 
royal authority. When Gov. Dongan, in 1G86, proposed 
to annex this Island to the town of East-Hampton tlie re- 
monstrance of the proprietor availed to prevent it and a 
confirmatory patent from the Governor continued his title 
and rights to his Lordship. By act of the Senate and As- 



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sembly of New-York, passed 7tli March, 1788, it was an- 
nexed, probably witliont opposition, to this town. The 
Manorial and Lordship incidents conferred by royal patent 
fell Avith the royal authority at the revolution, and the an- 
cient inheritance from Lion Gardiner became a part of the 
p;reat Republic, and its proprietors, descendants of his 
honored stock, ardent advocates of the free institutions of 
their country. 

This volume commences some twelve years before min- 
ister Huntting- vacated the pulpit, and nineteen years before 
he was laid in his grave. He was mild in manner, social 
in disposition, kind of heart, generous in feeling, profound 
in scholarship, logical in argument, dignified in demeanor, 
retiring in deportment, consecrated to the great work of 
the ministry ; and in the warmth of his affection, the wealth 
of his tenderness, the sensibility of his soul, a fitting 
friend and guide to his people. He died Sept. 21st, 1V53, 
some seven years after he had resigned the active duties of 
the pastoral relation in wliieh he had seived the Master 
fifty years. 

This volume covers the whole fifty-two years of the min- 
istry of Samuel Buell, D. D., from Sept. lOth, 1746, when 
he was installed, to July 19th, 1798, when he died. Ar- 
dent, earnest, imaginative, active, shrewd, positive, social, 
hospitable, cheerful, observing, magnetic within and with- 
out the pulpit, he Avas a living force long impressed upon 
the ciiurch and people of this town. He enlarged their 
views, elevated their thoughts, purified their purposes, in- 
spired to intellectual culture, to more tliorough education, 
to higher devotion of the heart, to nobler ends in life. His 
ferv(mt eloquence, his sparkling wit, his Avide learning, his 
genial manners, his ready repartee, his hunting feats, his 
fearless riding, his indomitabl<^ energy, his fiow of anecdote, 



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and variety of experience — all these are historic. But for 
him Clinton Academy had not been. 

Lyman Beecher, D. T>., of world-wide fame, successor of 
Minister Buel, and preaching here soon after his decease, 
was ordained over the chnrch, Sept. 5th, 1.799, and re- 
mained until 1811. At this time in East-Hampton were 
many gifted men, thoughtful, inquiring, well read, argu- 
mentative, logical, of powerful mind, some of whom were 
his near neighbors. Of this number were Abraham Par- 
sons, Town Clerk, Justice and School Teacher ; Jonathan 
'S. Conkling, afterwards State Senator and first Judge of 
the County ; Abel Huntington, M. D., Jonathan Dayton, 
David Gardiner, David Hedges, Jr., and others with whom 
Beecher often conversed and argued on questions connected 
with his sermons. The writer has been told that Beecher 
thus arguing sometimes met nearly if not quite his match, 
and in later life attributed his facility in debate and illus- 
tration to this early experience. 

This volume extends over the ministry of the grave, se- 
date and learned Ebenezer Phillips, ordained 5tli May, 
1811, resigned March 16th, 1830. In the utterance of ad- 
monition Phillips was unexcelled. On a Sabbath morning, 
after two Deacons of his church had engaged in a contest 
at law, he read for the morning lesson Chap, vi, of I Cor- 
inthians, commencing, "Dare any of you having a matter 
against another go to law before the unjust and not before 
the saints?" Possibly some aged hearer may still recall 
the emphasis expressed in the utterance of "dare,'' — deep, 
prolonged, terrific, reverberating, inimitable, as the roar of 
"Jupiter Tonans," 

This volume covers the ministry of the sweet and sainted 
Joseph D. Condit, from 5th Sept., 1830, to April 2d, 1835. 
It reaches over the ministry of Samuel R. Ely, D. D., as 



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stated supply from 1835 to 1846, whose genial ways, social 
fondness, fatherly care, and abounding love still linger in 
the memory of his flock. It covers the short ministry of 
Alexander Bullions, 1846-1848, and almost all that of Sam- 
uel Huntting, begun in 1848 and closed in 1849 by his 
lamented death. The stream of history running through 
this volume, measured by the career of the many eminent 
men who lived and died within its years, seems still more 
long and rapid. 

Eleazar Miller, grandson of John, the first settler, elected 
member of Assembly in 1748, re-elected continuously until 
1769, was thence called " Assemblyman Miller." In the 
latter year, after a warm contest. Col. afterwards Gen. 
Woodhull, of sad Revolutionary fame, secured the majority 
for Assembly over Miller. This useful, hospitable, prudent 
patriot and venerable legislator died March 15th, 1788, aged 
over 91. Doctor Nathaniel, son of Col. Abraham Gardiner, 
surgeon in the army of the Revolution, represented this 
County in the Assembly in 1786, 89 and 90. Thomas 
Wickham, (Capt. of a privateer in the Revolution) was As- ^ 
semblyman in 1800-1-2. Jonathan Dayton in 180. -5-8. 
Jonathan S. Conkling in 1811-14. Abraham Parsons in 
1817-20. Dayton and Conkling were subsequently in the 
State Senate. The writer well remembers these two rej)- 
resentatives and others in public life fifty years and more 
by gone — men of mark, known in the councils of the State 
and Nation ; as David Gardiner, father of ^Mrs. President 
Tyler and author of the "Chronicles" mentioned, Abel A 
Huntington, M. D., David Hedges, Jr., Josiah C. Dayton, ^ 
Samuel Miller, and many more, men of strong intellect, 
practical judgment, independent thought and personal pow- 
er amouK the distinguished minds of the Nation. Fifty 
years since few streets, oven in the great cities (;f the laud, 
presented a l^rightor constellation of minds than East- 
Hampton Main street. In her palmy days it may be doubt- 



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ed if the Seuators of East-Hamptou would compare uufav- 
orably with the illustrious Senate of the Roman Republic. 

The instruction and teaching of her brilliant line of min- 
isteis and statesmen may well be summed up in the words 
of fJosiah Quincy, of Boston: "Human happiness has no 
jjerfect security but freedom ; freedom, none but virtue ; 
virtue none but knowledge ; and neither ireedom, nor vir- 
tue, nor knowledge, has any vigor or immortal hope except 
in the principles of the Christian faitli, and the sanctions 
of the Ciiristian religion." 

By the munificence of the Town of East-Hampto:i her 
ancient records for two hundred years are rescued from ob- 
livion and perpetuated in print, to be an imperishable legacy 
of instruction and light to the world. 

Since 1849, when by invitation the writer delivered the 
Historical Address commemorating the bi-centennial of the 
settlement of his native town, forty years have gone. By 
the partiality of his townsmen he has been invited to write 
and permitted in old age to complete with his own hand, 
introductions to the former three and to this fourth volume 
of printed records. Thanks to them. Thanks to the 
" Power Supreme." For the good of his native town and 
native isle his heart until its last expiring pulsation will 
never cease to beat. For the culture of our youtli, for the 
difiusion of knowledge, for the preservation of our tradi- 
ticms and history, for the perpetuity of our free institu- 
tions, his desire will never die. My nat ve isle and native 
town, may they be forever free ! 

"Free as the winds that winnow 

Her siiriibless liills of sand ; 
Free astlie waves that batter 

Along her yielding land. 
Than hers at duty's summons, 

No loftier spirit stirs. 
Nor fails o'er human suffering 

A readi(^r tear than hers. 
God bless the sea-beat Island, 

And grant forevermore, 
That Charity and Freedom dwell 

As now u[)ori hcv shore." 

Bridge- Hampton, November 13, 1889. 

Ji. P. HEDGES. 



CHAPTER VII. 



THE INDIANS.— Death of the 3Iavhansett Sachem, p. 99. 
SacJienis Hole, p. 99. Wijaiidance attains snprcmacn, p. 
100. The Montank Tribe, p. 100^ Their Nmuher, p. 100. 

Wars loith Pequots and Narraghansetts, jj. 100. Naviga- 
tion, p. 102. Wampum,, p. 102. Religion, p. lOS. Mis- 
sions, p. 104. Cockence Long Island, p). lOi. Indian In- 
fluence on the Anglo-Saxon, p. 107. Beman, Father and 
son, p. 108. Love of War, p). 109. An Epitap)h, p). 110. 

The Trustees of the Town of East-HamjJton, p. 110. 



At the time of the settlement of East-Hampton this Tribe 
resided chiefly upon the Peninsula of '-Moutaukett," as 
their headquarters. 

Poggatacut, Sachem of the Manhansetts, and brother of 
Wyandance, died in 1651. Tradition (recorded) tells of 
the funeral train that carried his remains to interment at 
the royal burying-ground at Montauk. On the road from 
Sag-Harbor to East-Hampton, the bearers rested their 
burden on the ground. The place where the head -.-ested 
was marked by an excavation some 1^ feet in depth and 
diameter, and was known to all as "the Sachem's Hole." 
It was kept clear of leaves and rubbish as a sacred spot by 
the Indians in my day, and was located about two rods south 
west of the 3 mile stone from East-Hampton. The build- 
ing of the Turnpike road obliterated it, realizing the dan- 
ger of innovation foreboded by the author of the Chronicles 
of East-Hampton sooner than was looked for. Writers 



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speaking of this as the mark wliere rested the feet of the 
body contradict the tradition. Farmaii s Antiquities of 
Long Ishmd strangely and mistakenly records this place as 
marking the place where rested the- body of the Shinecock 
Sachem on its way, through Sag-Har])or to East-Hampton, 
and thence to Montauk for burial. This contradicts the 
tradition and the account recorded in "the Chronicles of 
East-Hampton," an authority remarkably full and accurate. 
The pre-eminence which he maintained over the other tribes 
of the Islapd, as their Sachem or Chieftain, seems to have 
descended to Wyandance, who thenceforth assumed the re- 
gal authority as Sachem of "Paumanacke," or Long Island. 
Under the government of Wyandance, if not previousl}^, 
this tribe acquired l)y their martial virtues and the skill of 
their chieftain, a powerful ascendency over the other tribes 
of the Island, who by tribute, deference, or otherwise, ac- 
knowledged their superiority. At this time they appear 
to liave been numerous. 

Among the manuscript memoranda of John Lyon Gardi- 
ner, deceased, (a great antiquarian, thorougldy versed in 
the records and history of the early settlement of tiie east- 
ern towns of Long Island,) I find the following : 

"Eleazar Miller, Esq., formerly member of Assembly, 
said that when a young man he once enquired of a vi^ry old 
Indian, whether the Indians on the east end of Long Island 
were numerous. The Indian, placing his hand upon the 
grass, answered : 'If yoti can couni the spires of grass, you 
can count the Indians that were living when I was a boy,' " 

The same antiquarian, (to whom I confess myself indebt- 
ed for much of our early history,) has left the following- 
record of tlieir romantic and most unfortunate defeat : 

" The Montauk Tribe of Indians were tributary or allied 
to the Pecpiots. When tliis country was first settled a war 
prevailed between the Pequots on the one part, and the 



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Narragh an setts, who were very numerous, on the other. 
The Bh)ck Island Indians took sides with the Litter, the 
Montauk Indians with the former. In this war tlie Mon- 
taukers received a heavy blow from the Block Island In- 
dians. 

"Both parties set out in their war canoes, on the same 
evening. It Avas in the summer season, and at the full ()f 
the moon. They met half Avay, but the Block Island Indi- 
ans being so situated in the glades of the moon, could npt 
be seen, while at the same time, looking westward, they 
saw at a distance their enemies silently approaching in In- 
dian file. The word was given, and they hurried back to 
Block Island, laid in ambush for their enemies, and secreted 
their wives and children. The Montaukers, unsuspicious, 
arrived at their lauding place, hauled up their canoes, and 
were silently, and as they thought, sure of success, ap- 
proaching the wigwams of their enemies, while as they 
supposed asleep. They fell into the ambush that was laid, 
and while one party was killing them another was destroy- 
ing their canoes, and slaying such as attempted to return. 
They Avere all either taken or killed, except a few who es- 
caped in one canoe. These brought the melancholy news 
to their friends. The Montaukers then moved on to the 
parsonage lands, at East-Hampton, and continued there a 
long time. Their Sachem was taken alive and carried to 
Narraghansett. A large, flat rock was heated by building 
fires upon. He was tnen ordered on it, with his bare feet. 
He sung his death song, walking several times composedly 
across it, till his feet were burned to a coal. He fell, and 
they finished the scene as usual in such cases. This was 
the last of their wars." 

The tribe continued to decrease, and although severe 
laws were enacted, to prevent intemperance, by the sale of 
intoxicating drinks among them, yet other causes operated 
to reduce theii> number. It is probable that about this 
period the small pox, (that terror of the Indian,) prevailed 
among them, and carried off great numbers. The following 
order upon the town books substantiates the conjecture. 



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"March 2nd, 1663. — It is ordered tliat noe Indian sliall 
come to town, into the street, after sufficient notice, on 
penalty of paying 5s., or be whipped ; until they be free of 
the .small pox,'' &c. 

In language, customs, government, religion and manners, 
this tribe was similar to the adjoining aboriginal tribes. 
The lamented author of the Chronicles of East-Hampton, 
(than whom none was better versed in local antique lore,) 
says of them : — 

" In their religion they were Polytheists and Idolaters. 
Their government was a monarchial despotism. In person 
they were tall, of proud and lofty movement, of active bod- 
ies and as straight as the arrow. They were warlike in 
their habits and spent most of their time in the study of 
military policy. Their chiefs and their braves were dis- 
tinguished above those of the other tribes of the Island for 
prowess in the field ; for a recklessness of life in battle, and 
for the bold and daring onset with which, under their war 
scream, they rushed upon an enemy." 

"Their canoes in which they visited the neighboring isl- 
ands and the continent, as far east as Boston, and as far 
south as New York, were of the largest class, and in some 
instances capable of carrying eighty persons. That of Wy- 
andance required the strength of seven or eight men to 
draw it from the water upon the shore ; and on one occas- 
ion was damaged at Gardiner's Island for want of a suffic- 
ient number of persons to place it beyond the reach of the 
sea. With New Haven and the Connecticut River their 
intercourse was frequent. Their habits were social and 
they visited of < en and familiarly the families of neighbour- 
ing tribes, with whom they delighted to mix in converse 
and friendly gaieiy." 

"In the arts they had made but small advancement. The 
principal articles of manufacture were shell beads, called 
wampum, and which all accounts agree in stating were 
made by them in greater abundance than by any other 
tribe." "They were, as I have before remarked, Polytheists. 
They had gods in great numbers ; many of lesser influence. 



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liarinf^ particular c-liHrG;es, and two of exalted degree, the 
good and the evil Deity, having a general superintendence 
and control, as well over all other gods as over men. Tin re 
was a god of the four corners of the earth, and the four 
seasons of the year; another of the productions of, the 
earth ; another of the elements ; one of the day and night ; 
and a god of the hearth, the family, and domestic relations. 
The great, good, and supreme Deity they called Caulklun- 
toowut, which signifies one possessed of supreme power. 
The great evil spirit was named Mutcheshesumetooh, which 
signifies evil power. They Avorshipped and offered sacri- 
fices to these gods at all times. They had small idols or 
images which they believed knew the will of the gods, and 
a regular Priesthood by whom these idols were consulted. 
The priests were callecf Powawas or Powwas, and declared 
to the people what the gods recjuired of them ; when 
dances and feasts should be made ; when presents should 
be given to the old people ; when sacrifices should be of- 
fered to the gods, and of Avhat kind. These Powwas pre- 
tended to hold intercourse with the gods, in dreams, and 
with the evil spirit in particular, who appeared to them un- 
der different forms, and by voices in the air. These were 
!^he medicine men. They administered to the sick ; relieved 
those afflicted with evil spirits and poison, and by incanta- 
tions and charms, protected the people from all harm. 
Subject to the Powwas' influence, neither could fire burn 
them nor water drown them ; nor could they receive any 
injury whatever. The most savory^ sacrifice made to the 
great Deity was the tail or fin of the whale, which they 
roasted. The leviathan, from which it was taken, was at 
times found cast upon the sea shore, and then a great and 
prolonged powaw, or religious festival, was held. At these 
festivals great efforts were supposed to be necessary to 
keep the Evil One without the circle of their incantations. 
His presence, it was believed, would defeat the object of 
the Powwas in the procurement of the favor and particular 
regard of the good deity. Violent gesticulations, loud 
yells, and laborious movements of the limbs and body, with 
distortion of the features, were continued until the excite- 



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ment produced approaclied to madness. When the Evil 
Spirit was supposed to be subjugated the dance and the 
feast commenced. • It is among the Indian traditions, thtit 
the existence of the Evil Spirit was evidenced by his hav- 
ing, when driven from the feast, left the imprint of his foot 
upon a granite rock on Montauk, and made three holes in 
the ground, at regular distances, where he alighted in three 
several leaps from the stone on which he had stood, and 
then disappeared." 

"They believed in a future state of existence ; that their 
souls would go westward a great distance, and many moons 
journey, to a place where the spirits of all would reside, 
and where, in the presence of their great Sawwonnuntoh, 
beyond the setting sun, the brave and the good would ex- 
ercise themselves in pleasureable singing, in feasting, hunt- 
ing and dancing forever. The coward, the traitor, the liar, 
and the thief were also there, but the enjoyments of the 
favored Sawwonnuntoh only added to the pain, of the pun- 
ishments visited upon the misdeeds of the wicked. Servile 
labor, so painful to and so much despised by the Indian, 
was the allotment of the sinful. The making a canoe with 
a round stone, and the carrying water in a wicker basket, 
were among the perplexing exercises of those who had sac- 
rificed the happiness of their future existence to the will of 
Mutcheshesumetooh, or the Evil Power." 

Efforts were, at a very e^rly day, made to introduce civ- 
ilization and Christianity among this tribe, but apparently 
with little success. The Rev. Thomas James was employ- 
ed by "The Society for propagating the Gospel in New 
England," about the year 1660. He commenced the study 
of the Indian language, and made efforts to spread the 
knowledge of the Gospel among the Montauk Indians. 
Little is known however either of the length or success of 
his exertions. 

In 1741 the New-York Committee of the same society 
employed Mr. Azariah Horton, (a native of Southold,) as a 
missionary, to be exclusively employed in the instruction 



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of the Long Island Indians ; and in tliat year he was or- 
dained by the Presbytery of New-York to the work of the 
Gospel ministry. lu this service Mr. Horton remained 11 
years. From his journal, still extant, it would appear that 
he often preached to and labored with the Montauk Indians, 
and that some of them received the Gospel. These were 
probably the first religious impressions which to any ex- 
tent aifected the tribe. 

In 1798 the Eev. Paul Cuffee, a native Shinecock In- 
dian, received a commission from the "New-York Mission- 
ary Society," to labor with the remnants of the Long Island 
Indians. In their employ he remained till his death, which 
occurred Mnrch 7th, 1812. The principal field of his labor 
was Canoe Place and Montauk. 

The tribe of Montauk Indians, within the memory of 
some of the oldest inhabitants, numbered some two hun- 
dred. Fifty or sixty years since, under the tuition of one 
Brown, an Er^lishman, who resided among them, they 
made some little advances in education. At that day thoy 
were eagerly sought for as whalemen, on account of their 
aptness and skill in seamanship, and their rare merits in 
the perilous conflicts with the giants of the deep. They 
manifested an equal readiness for the w^haling voyage, and 
not a ship in that day sailed upon a whaling cruise without 
the necessary cemplement of Indians. The same passion 
has, to some extent, descended to the few survivors of the 
present day. 

History has meagerly, romance bountifully sketched the 
peculiarities of the Indian. My learned friend William W. 
Tooker, with antiquarian perseverance and matchless skill, 
has traced the history of "Cockenoe de Long Island," from 
his capture in the Pequot war, (where the Montauks as 
tributary to the Pequots were involved in their destruction,) 



106 

to his slavery in Massachusetts, his service as first inter- 
j)reter to John Elliott in his translation of tlie Indian Bible, 
his return to his native tribe at Montauk, his marriage with 
the sister of Wyandance, and of the other three great Sa- 
chems of Eastern Long Island, his career as chief counsel- 
lor in the Montauk tribe, his offioe of interpreter and agency 
in the large sales of Indian lauds on Long Island. His 
intellectual eminence must have been an elevating power to 
his tribe, and contributed to prolong their existence and 
supremacy over the other neighboring tribes. The seclus- 
ion of the Montauks was unusually favorable to their sur- 
vival, as a people. The doom of destruction, that swept 
away the Indian race as a whirlwind, was delayed but not 
averted from the Montauks. The example and teaching of 
this high counselor and of Sampson Occum, Azariah Hor- 
ton and others, was evanescent. Some brief account of 
Gospel work among them remains. After the death of 
Wyandance, in 1659, by poison secretly administered, the 
tribe under the leadership of Weoncomboue, his son, came 
to reside on the calf pasture south of the main street, as a 
refuge from the persecution of the Narragansetts. While 
there in 1662, the small pox raged so fatally as to threaten 
their extinction, and Weoncomboue then died at the age of 
twenty-two. In my boyhood many graves remained there, 
reputed to be of Indians. In excavating for the foundation 
of the dwelling house and outbuildings of Mr. Satter- 
thwaite, years ago the bones of Indian bodies, bottles, an 
idol image and other articles identifying, the site of their 
burial place were found. The idol may have beent he one 
worshipped by the young Sachem. Writers have erred in 
stating that with the decease of the sou of Wyandance his 
descendants perished. His grandson Moushu, alias Pouiute, 
signed the deed of Dec. 1, 1670, for a portion of Montauk. 



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The record of impress of the intellectual and moral 
power of the white race on the Indian is not lacking. But 
who has written of 

THE INFLUENCE OP THE INDIAN ON THE ANGLO SAXON ? 

The contact of the Pioneers and their descendants for 
generations with the Indian tribes, organized or disorgan- 
ized, was a potent factor in the formation of character. 
The Indian was proud, self controlled, revengeful, subtle, 
thoughtful, persevering, brave, mechanically ingenious, la- 
conic in expression, keen in observation ; impatient of re- 
straint, enduring in fortitude, grateful for kindness, un- 
jdelding to the foe ; unimpressible to antagonizing or to 
unaccustomed influences. His nature was full of apparent 
contradictions. He endured hardship and hunger as a 
Spartan of old. He yielded to the^ove of strong drink as 
tlie. weakest wine bibber. He was immovable in patience 
and perseverance. He was as restless and roving in desire 
as a wandering Arab. He seemed immersed in his own 
thoughts and yet read with almost unfailing penetration 
the heart of his fellow men. He took little from the Anglo- 
Saxon in education, in manners or religion. He left his 
impress on the whites. His grim wit, his stoical fortitude, 
his feigned insensibility to pain and suffering, his love of in- 
dependence, his hate of bondage, his fondness for the chase, 
his kinship to nature, his admiration for eloquence : all 
these, less on the old, more on the young, somewhat on all, 
were inherited as influences derived from association with 
the Indian. His craft and his caution gave to the soldier 
of the Colonial and Revolutionary wars, and to their des- 
cendants elements of character that fitted them the better 
for the duties of their arduous life and the high destiny 
they should achieve. 

The Montauk or Shinecock squaw seventy years ago, 



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often peddled baskets in the Hamptons. A strap over the 
head held the burden on the back. With noiseless foot- 
step she approached the door ; unbidden she raised the 
latch ; unabashed and unabashable, with the air of a Queen, 
she entered and put the query, "Spose you don't want to 
buy no baskets nor nothing to-day ?" A few old men and 
women yet live, who in the far off years heard this query 
and witnessed the attitude and assumption of indifference 
inimitable and unique. 

Nearly an hundred years by-gone an Indian in East- 
Hampton, named Josiah Beman, preached the doctrine of 
Universal 8alvation. It is said Lyman Beeclier, as Avas 
the custom, then had his wood-pile in the street. While 
cutting wood Beman came along the street and this dia- 
logue followed : Beecher to Beman, "I hear you preach the 
doctrine of Universal Salvation '?" Answer, "Yes." Beech- 
er said, "I see no need of your preaching if your doc- 
trine is true, because then all men will be saved whether 
you preach or not." Beman said, "Mr. Beecher, I hear 
you preach the doctrine of Foreordination ?" Ans., "Yes." 
Beman said, "If your doctrine is true, I see no need of 
your preaching, because if men are foreordained to be 
saved or lost they will be saved or lost whether you preach 
or not." 

A younger Beman (I think son of Josiah) was a bound 
servant boy to the Eev. Ebenezer Phillips, in East-Hamp- 
ton. He was a long annoying trial to the parson. At last 
the boy wore out the minister's patience. He collared Be- 
man in earnest, whip in hand, determined to give the imp 
a thorough threshing. Introducing the punishment with 
admonition, Mr. Phillips in grave emphatic characteristic 
tones said, "Now, Beman, I have counseled and advised 
you. I have remonstrated with you and warned you. I 



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have threateued you ; yes, and I have reasoned with you. 
It all does no good, and now I must whip you." Even in 
the impending danger, Beman noticed the emphasis on the 
word "reasoned.'" After some dozen or more sharp, sting- 
ing lashes were struck, as if a new and startling thought 
had come uppermost, Beman sang out, "Oh ! Oh ! Massa 
Phillips! Oh, Massa Phillips, stop! Massa Phillips, 
stop!" Expecting some new development, Mr. Phillips 
stopped, saying, "Well, Beman, what is it ?" Beman said, 
"Oh, Massa Phillips, let's reason.'' 

Beman is not the first or only transgressor who preferred 
reasoning to threshing. The flavor of Indian wit aud hu- 
mour, the concentrated force of the Indian epigram trans- 
mitted down the later generations, is characteristic of the 
American mind and born of aboriginal antecedents. Deep 
seated and nurtured in the heart of the Indian for untold 
ages was the love of war. His education, his hunter life, 
his undying aspiration was supremacy in martial achieve- 
ment. Ttiis was "his being's end and aim." To this all 
other pursuits or desires were subject. The four Sachems 
of the tribes of eastern Long Island in 1645, offered their 
services as warriors to the Dutch against the English, 
thereby showing their inherent love for war. After the 
lapse of more than a century and a quarter from the settle- 
ment of the town and the friendly intercourse with the 
whites and the "old, old story," liy ministers James and 
Huntting and Buell, by Sampson Occum and Azariah Hor- 
ton and others, they were still ready for war, even against 
their best friends and neighbois. 

Martha Bookee Flint, in her book entitled " Early Long 
Island a Colonial Study," on p. 429, cites a letter written 
about 1777 by Guy Johnson to Lord Germaiue, quoting this: 
"I had an interview with the Mcmtauk Indians on Long 



no 

Island, who though few in number and surrounded by dis- 
affected people, have offered their services whenever the 
General could please to make use of them." The Indian 
walked " in the valley of the shadow of death." The the- 
ology of the day contributed to darken his night. Samp- 
son Occum's hymn commencing " Awaked by Sinai's awful 
sound " ends with the words " redeeming love." Yet four 
of its five stanzas describe the state of despair, as if a pre- 
monition of the extinction of his race was his dominating 
thought. It seems as if the Indian brooding over, resolved 
to hasten his doom and contribute to his own destruction. 
The elder Beman is said to have composed his epitaph, 
which is cliaracteristic of himself and perhaps of the tribes 
then vanishing. It runs thus : 

"Here Josiah Beman lies, 
And nobody laughs and nobody cries ; 
■ Where he's gone and how he fares, 
Nobody knows and nobody cai'es." 

The Trustees of the Town, as a corporation, were twelve 
in number. By the patent of Gov. Dongan they took title 
in trust by its terms " only " in trust as a medium of con- 
veyance, to confirm the allotted lands to the individual 
owners thereof, the unallotted lands to their owners and 
with a pre-emption right to acquire the yet unpurchased 
part of Montauk. The date of the patent was December 
9th, 1686. The date of the deed of the unpurchased part 
of Montauk was August 3d, 1687. The nearly cotempo- 
raneous dates would seem to imply some connection between 
tkem, and imply that the patent was a procuring cause of 
the deed. The trustees, and they alone, could purchase. 
They could do So for the benefit of the town, or of individ- 
uals. They chose to do so for individuals. The twenty- 
nine proprietors who took title in the deed to "North Neck" 
and all the remainder of Montauk lying east of and includ- 



Ill 

ing Great Pond, advanced to the Trustees the purchase 
money wherewith they paid the Montauk trilie of Indians 
for the land. Thenceforth the Trustees held the nominal 
legal title for the benefit of the purchasers, who held the 
equitable title. By contributing the money to purchase, a 
trust resulted in the land for the benefit of those contribu- 
tors, in the proportion of their contributions. If the Trus- 
tees were unfaithful to their duty as Trustees for the equit- 
able owners, the latter could invoke the aid of a court of 
equity and compel a conveyance to them of the legal title 
by the Trustees. On this theory, in 1851, at the Suffolk 
County Circuit, judgment was rendered against the Trus- 
tees in favor of the committee of the proprietors, prosecut- 
ing in liehalf of themselves and their numerous co-owners 
in their own names. As required by the terms of the 
Judgment, the Trustees conveyed all their corporate rights 
or claim to the land and waters of Montauk, to the propri- 
etors, who thenceforth, as a corporation, governed the 
same, substantially as it had been governed by the Town 
Trustees, before they set up claims of ownership adverse 
to the rights of the equitable owners. In 1879, by sale in 
a partition suit, Arthur W. Bej son became the purchaser 
and sole owner of the laud called Montauk. Since he be- 
came the owner the Indians left their home at Montauk. 
Their dwellings were removed or demolished. For some 
years they have been disbanded as a tribe. They and their 
descenlants are dispersed -and widel} scattered, without 
organization ; with little aboriginal blood, the few tragic 
survivors of a once great name. 

With a short interval from the time of Dongan's Patent, 
for 1(30 years, the Tr.wn Trustees controlled, managed and 
governed the territory of Montauk. The three purchases 
of Montauk, comprising "the Hither End," which extended 



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to and included Fort Pond; the nine score acie purchaise, 
which comprised the laud from Fort Poud to Great Pond, 
and bounded north nearly by the line of stone wall between 
those ponds, (called the nine score acre purchase because 
the three men purchasing were reimbursed on conveying 
to proprietors, by an allottment of nine score acres at Am- 
agansett, and sometimes called the "land between the 
Ponds") ; and the final purchase of 1687, constituted three 
sets of jDurchasers owning different interests. In 1748, by 
consent of all these proprietors, their complicated interests 
were simplified and consolidated so as to run throughout 
the whole territory of Montauk,* estimated at nine thous- 
and acres. In this equalization a share in the "Hither 
End" was estimated at X8, Os, Od, a share in the land 
"between the ponds" at <£8, Os, Od, and a share in the land 
east of Fort Pond at X24, Os, Od. The sum of these three 
amounts is £40, Os, Od. Thereafter a share throughout 
Montauk was measured by forty pounds, and an eighth 
part of a share by five pounds, and all ownership or interest 
therein was measured by pounds, shillings and pence. 
The Town Trustees took the charge and practical manage- 
ment of this large territory, improved mainly as a pastur- 
age for cattle from the early days of the town to modern 
times. They regulated the pasturage ; they fixed the stint 
or proportion of cattle allowed on an undivided interest ; 
they kept a record of all the owners and their riglits ; they 
hired and fixed the compensation of the shepherds or keep- 
ers, who resided on Montauk ; they negotiated with the 
tribe of Indians there residing ; they provided for fencing 
tiie land in several tracts ; they took measures to prevent 
trespass ; they sold the wood as it became ripe for cutting ; 
the construction and repairing of the dwellings tlierc^on 

*See copy document equalizing in Appendix. 



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they managed. All these and many other duties connected 
with this large domain enhanced the importance of the of- 
fice of Trustee and made a position on that Board an edu- 
cational force. Thereby they acquired business habits, 
legislative and practical knowledge, self reliance and an ex- 
perience impelling thought towards popular government. 
Thus twelve citizens were constantly training to represent 
the Town by this large trust and by thinking, speaking, 
and acting for the town. When Gov. Dongau sanctioned 
and legalized such a Board of Trustees in the old towns of 
Long Island, he chartered a power that could move and 
did move with an augmenting velocity ever more in the 
direction of popular rights. The inborn devotion to free- 
dom that never slumbered in the old towns of Suffolk 
County was nurtured and grew deep rooted in their repre- 
sentative boards of Trustees. They were the Tribunes 
of the people. What shall be the value of products of the 
earth as currency ? How shall the meeting house be fin- 
ished? Shall the money of the town in Jere Mulford's 
hands go to pay the minister? Shall the negroes sit in 
the 2d gallery ? Shall a school house or town poor house 
be built ? Shall the bell be rung at nine o'clock ? Shall 
Eleazar Miller and his partners be allowed to take tim- 
ber to build a vessel ? Shall the Montauk Indians have 
powder and shot to resist invasion ? Shall innoculation 
to prevent the ravages of the small pox be permitted or 
prohibited ? Shall the cattle that were taken from Mon 
tank in 1775 to prevent their seizure by the British fleet 
go back or stay at home? In 1781 the British government 
demanded of the farmers of East-Hampton 40 tons of hay. 
W^hat men and in what proportions should they furinsh 
it ? All these and hundreds of other momentous proposi- 
tions ar.^ decided by a vote of the Town Trustees, and their 
vote sounds as a judgment irreversible. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Tlie original chvelUngs rctd their location, ^i. 114. The later 
dwellings and surroundings, p. llo. Progress, p. 117. 
Home manufacture, p. 117- Economic and socicd life, p. 
nS. Literature, p. 11!). The galaxy of mind, p. 120. 
Health p. 121. The County of Kent, p. 12S. Maidstone, 
p. 123. Stdtstitutes for Money, p. I2fj. Religion, p. 127. 
The Sahhath, p. 129. Care of Indians, p. 120. Fity for 
the poor, p. 130. 



Probably the settlement of East-Hampton was commenced 
by a few pioneers who erected rude dwellings for tempora- 
ry use, some partly under grouad — some partly covered 
with earth and some like log cabins. As late as 1678 (T. 
R. Vol. I, p. 414) the sale of a home lot "and cellar" indi- 
cates this kind of structure as then in being. It is not im- 
probable that the preparing Pioneers stopped awhile at 
Southampton, proceeding from thence as a base to East- 
Hampton. It has been said Tradition is the fragments 
which history loses on its way to eternity. The uniform 
tradition that East-Hampton was settled by a company 
from Lynn, until of late years, was unquestioned and is yet 
undisproved. In Lyman Beecher's Historical sermon of 
1806, p. 7, it is stated tliat six families commenced the set- 
tlement "at the south end of the town." "That they were 
discovered by some Indians who were out on a hunting 
party. That the chief warrior applied to the Sachem (then 
living at Three Mile Harbor) for leave to cu'. them off — 
that the Indians who made the discovery were called and 
interrogated. Did they invite you into their houses ? They 



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did. Did they give you to eat ? They did. Did you expe- 
rience any harm from what you ate ; did it poison you ? It 
did not. The reply of the Sachem turning to his warrior 
was, you shall not cut them off." This relation is there 
stated to have been made to persons then living, by a native 
of Montauk, then dead, 50 years ago and about an hundred 
years old at the time of her death, who, if she did not her- 
self recollect the first settlement of the town must have 
lived so near that period as to have received correct infor- 
mation. The dwellings would be located compactly ; for 
social convenience, for easier fortification, for defence 
against the wild beast and the prowling savage. Every 
house was fortified by palisades. The church was central 
and used as a meeting house, court house and fortress. 
The spring then running in the middle of the street, and 
probably into the Hook Pond, furnished water for the set- 
tlers, was within gun shot of the dwellings and defensible 
therefrom. These rude dwellings with thatched roofs soon 
disappeared and before the first half century had expired, 
more spacious and comfortable houses had taken their 
place. They were succeeded by single houses generalh' 
fronting the south, two stories high on that side and run- 
ning down to one story in the rear, framed of massive tim- 
ber, shingled on uprights and roofs, constructed of endur- 
ing materials, wrought with honest care and foi future ages. 
The long low roof, the leaden window sash, the miniature 
diamond shaped glass, the red cedar window frames, the 
projecting posts, the big beams overhead in tne rooms, the 
queer blue painted wainscotting, the hard shell lime Avails, 
the huge fireplaces, the spacious oven, the vast chimney are 
relics almost unknown. '5?he eel spear and clam rake that 
hung at the end of the house was often used to procure 
food from the waters. The old "King's Arm" that hun<^ 



lie 

over tlie fire place failed not to bring clown ducks and geese 
and brant that tlew in abundance now unknown. The samp 
mortar hard by was a large hollow log, upright, and over it 
hung the huge pestle suspended from an elastic sapling 
hung in a crutch. The operator held the pin driven 
througli this pounder, beating fine into samp the corn in 
the huge mortar. The spring of the pole raised the poun- 
der again to descend, blow on blow, until the song of the 
samp mortar worked chiefly of a Saturday for Sunday's 
food, had ceased with the close of the labor of the w^orker. 
The well pole rose from every rear yard and "the moss cov- 
ered bucket" "hung in the well. 

The abundance of the waters, the game of the woods,' the 
swarming wild fowl of its air, the profitable enterprise of 
the whale fishery were all attractions of the place. Clear- 
ings had been made by the Indians where corn could be 
raised. Southampton and Southold were not too remote 
for counsel and succor. Gardiner on his Island desired, 
and probably invited the Pioneers. Wyandance at Mon- 
tauk was friendly. Connecticut had crushed the terrific 
Pequot tribe and would hold over them her protecting 
wing. Harbors for smfill craft opened for prospective com- 
merce, at Napeague, at Three Mile Harbor, at Northwest. 
The sound was an avenue for travel and transportation that 
prevented isolation, and was convenient for the fleet of a 
Nation. As years passed on the settlement prospered. The 
dwelling of 1684, with its one front room and low long 
roof, gave place to the dwelling of 1784, Avith its two front 
rooms and two story heigh th, and its substantial comfort, 
its more capacious barn, its more enlarged field and agri- 
cultural products. The exterior of the dwellings changed. 
The interior was almost identical. The same sanded floors, 
the same projecting posts, the same modelled mantel piece, 



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the same closet over the firc-phice and in the corner of the 
big parlor, the same place of honor for the gun. The like 
dining table, similar chests of drawers, carved dragon's feet 
are yet underneath them ; flag bottomed chairs, the handi- 
work of the Indian ; all these, from age to age, for nearly 
two hundred years, remained practically the same. Even 
the tobacco patch of the planter of 1689 was like that of 
1784, and the smoke of both not unlike. 

Time had vindicated the wisdom of the colonists in the 
selection of their home. As early as 1654 by an ordinance 
the dwellers on the street were enjoined to "clear the high- 
way in the street six feet from the payles," &c. Thus early 
was nurtured a sense of neatness and a culture of beauty, 
that made the " Town Street" a charm one hundred years 
ago and a living landscape that is an abiding delight. 
From that day to this, the stranger looking on its wide 
avenue, its old trees and old houses, its sward of "living 
green," and breathing its pure air, has sought rest in its 
quiet and restoration in its simple and natural beauty. 

The policy of England was to restrain the commerce and 
manufactures of the colonies, and at their expense promote 
her own aggrandizement. Connecticut was a focus of in- 
vention, yet the first carding machine there was constructed 
in 1802. Previous to that time wool was carded at their 
own firesides only by females. The shoes, stockings, caps, 
straw hatS; clothing, linen for the table and bedding, the 
harness, brushes and brooms were manufactured largely or 
wholly in the family. Within the memory of the writer 
there were resident in one-half the dwelling houses on 
East-Hampton Main street a shoemaker member of the 
household who made the shoes for the family. Nothing 
was bought that could be made at home. The spinning 
wheel was constantly running and carried in visits to 



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neighbors. The I'tirmer raised, and his wife and daughters 
spun the. flax and wool that kept the family warm with 
clothing by day and covering by night. The family meal 
was eaten from wooden trenchers or pewter plates and plat- 
ters, with the smallest possible allowance of tin and crock- 
ery ware. Corn and rye with very little wheat furnished 
flour for bread. Fish, beef and pork salted for the year's 
supply were the chief items of animal food. Unceasing in- 
dustry and toil occupied all the members of the family, 
young and old. Kigid economy ruled every expenditure. 
The simplest, cheapest diet satisfied the appetite. The 
homespun apparel in summer and mostly in winter was 
then worn. For clothing the cost of buttons, for harness 
the price of buckles, bitts and trace irons were almost the 
only expenditure. Looking back three score years and ten 
it is simply astonishing how little money was sufficient to 
buy all that the then wants of a family required. In life 
frugality reigned ; in death a stained pine cofl&n made by 
a neighbor carpenter enclosed the mortal remains of young 
and old, of rich and poor. Four friends raised the cofiin 
on the bier and bore it on their shoulders to the grave. 
No display of hearse, no cavalcade of horse and carriage, 
no pomp of ostentations or idle mourning made outward 
sign of unfelt grief. The rites and ceremony of burial were 
as simple and unobtrusive as the life. The lament, less 
conspicuous, may have been as sincere then as now. Pos- 
sibly the hard struggle for life made it easier to let go our 
hold of it. It is true Summer and Autumn and Spring each 
had days "almost divine."- But Winter, cold, cheerless, 
shivering Winter tried soul aud body. I remember the 
one fire on the hearth of a cold dark morning, so cold that 
a blanket hung from the hooks in the wall encircled the 
family and fire as an additional protection from the cold. 



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T]ie hum is frying;-, the Jolmiiy cake is baking, the coffee 
pot is boiling, the table is set and for convenience is small, 
not half as large as uoav is required. Now it is twenty five 
cents' Avorth of plate and twenty-five cents' worth of meat ; 
then five cents' worth of plate and twenty-five cents' worth 
of meat. The old sat, the young stood, around the break- 
fast table. A dihh of meat cut in pieces ready for eating 
was in the middle of the table. All hands broke the John- 
ny cake in small pieces and with the fork dipped it in the 
gravy held in the meat dish, and occasion aly speared out a 
piece of meat in the same way. It was a cold, frugal, hard, 
narrow, severe winter life. 

The clustering location of the dwellings favored frequent 
visitation and social intercourse. The testimony of wit- 
nesses in the controversies recorded in the Town Eecords, 
sometimes give us a flash of light revealing social enjoy- 
ment. Theie miglit be pressing danger from Indians, from 
Pirates, from belligerent nations. There was a limited 
commerce in which all were interested. There was a far 
off Fatherland to which for long years they were bound by 
ties of blood and kinship. Their isolation demanded con- 
cert. Their worship brought them together. The thoughts 
of the thoughtful became the thoughts and property of all. 
The vv'elfare of one became the concern of all. Neighborly 
kindness and sympathy reigned over the habitations of our 
forefathers. Poverty evoked pity. Misfortune called for 
mercy. Sickness appealed for sympathy to tender hearts 
from that day to this. 

Books were costly and rare ; so costly that "Willard's 
Body of Divinity," (a folio) was written out in full by min- 
ister Huntting, and was extant at a recent date. Newspa- 
pers were unknown. A volume of sermons, in the time of 
the Long Parliament, might be among the literary treas- 



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ures of the community. The Bible whs llie Book. The 
Minister was the guide iu politics, in law, in morals, in 
religion. Instruction was mainly oral and traditionary. 
In the absence of other teaching the two hours' sermon 
was to them a lecture of untiring interest, and to us y^\\M 
our wealth of books, magazines and newspapers, a common- 
place and unedifying lesson. 

Yet in that far off day there was not wanting the courage 
to dare, tiie genious to instruct, the power to lead. The 
men of 1717, who erected the church building of that date, 
were worthy to be counted founders of a commonwealth. 
The men of 1784, who built Clinton Academy lacked not 
the heart but the wealth and numbers to found a Universi- 
ty. The community wherein lived Lion Gardiner, William 
Fithian, John Mulford and his greater son Samuel, Minis- 
ters James and Huntting, could not sink to low abasement. 
WJien after their career was run, and Samuel Buel resided 
there, Eleazar Miller the "Assemblyman," and his sons 
Burnet, and Abraham the Judge, Judge Chatfield, Col. 
Abraham Gardiner and his son Nathaniel the surgeon of 
^the Kevolution and friend of Andre, Capt. John Dayton, 
Col. David Mulford and his kinsman Capt. Ezekiel, and 
Capt. Thomas Wickham illuminated the life of the village 
and town. If Alfred Conkling, father of Koscoe ; Sylvanus 
Miller, long time Surrogate of the City and County of New 
York ; Jeremiah Osborn, once surrogate of Bensselaer 
County ; Burnet Miller, member of the colonial congress, 
removed from East-Hampton, with many others, there still 
remained those who would have been lights in any cultured 
community ; men whose names are recorded with honor in 
the civil list of their state and nation. William S. Pelle- 
treau, a distinguished antiquarian, writing of East-Hamp- 
ton in " Munsell's History of Suffolk County," said, after 



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exhausting study, " A town that in proportion to its popu- 
lation has produced more men of talent and high position 
than any other in Suffolk County.". 

On Monday afternoon the women of the village devoted 
some time to friendly visits. Carrying the light linen 
spinning wheel, they sought social enjoyment to enliven 
their unrelaxing labors. In earliest days the wit and charm 
of the maidens of this town were famed. In later days 
their accomplishments were not less known. 

In September, 1696, minister Huntting commenced his 
minute and careful record of baptisms and deaths, which 
minister Buell continued to his death, in July 19th, 1788. 
This continuous record, extending over one hundred years, 
historically is invaluable and yet unprinted. 

Minister Huntting baptized infants 1,241 

Minister Buell baptized infants and adults 1,797 

Total 3,038 

Minister Huntting records deaths 646 

Minister Buell records deaths s — 1,093 1,739 



The baptisms exceed the deaths 1,299 

The record should substantially include all deaths. The 
number of baptisms recorded by Huntting excludes adults 
and the record of Buell includes them. It is improbable 
that much over four-fifths of the infants were baptized dur- 
ing the term of Huntting and much less during that of 
Buell. Adding one-fifth, 607 to 3,038 gives 3,645 ; subtract- 
ing the deaths 1,739, would leave the births in excess 
1,806, being more than double the number of deaths for the 
century covered by the record. This result, very nearly 
exact, demonstrates the proposition that the town as a lo- 
cality was favorable to health by a long record seldom 
equalled. Beecher's sermon recites : 



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"From the year 1751 to the year 1775, there were the 
highest bills of mortality. In this period of 24 years the 
bill of mortality arose twice to 38, once to 37, once to 36, 
once to 35, once to 32, once to 30. It often exceeded 25 
and once arose to 51. This was in the year 1775. Since 
that time, a period of thirty years, there have been but two 
ye..rs before the present in which the bill of mortalit}- ex- 
ceeds d 20. It has been as low as 9. In this sickly period 
of twenty-fonr years there died 642. In the thirty years 
since there have died 405, making a difference of 237; 
10 persons annually, notwithstanding the increased popula- 
tion of the town, which has been very considerable. The 
cause of this surprising change is ascribed by man}^ to the 
death of the prim, (now generally called privet) which con- 
stituted a principal part of the fencing of the town, all of 
which died suddenly and unaccountably about the time 
that this favorable change took place." 

The temperature of the ocean is higher in winter and 
lower in summer than thatof the adjacent laud or o'erarch- 
ing air. From every quarter the wind blows over bay or 
sound or ocean, modifying the climate by lessening the ex- 
treme cold of winter and the parching heat of summer- 
The effect of the gulf stream, some 110 miles distant from 
Montauk Point, is an important element in alleviating the 
severity of winter's cold. The prevailing sea breeze from 
the south-west is a factor not less grateful at all seasons. 
The atmosphere lacks the dry, stimulating character known 
inland and is conducive to sleep, to rest and restoration of 
the wearied powers of body and mind. To the products 
of the earth for the sustenance of man are added "the 
abundance of the sea." All afford an agreeable variety 
and all tend to lengevity. An epidemic that often desolates 
the masses inland seldom enters the gates of East-Hamp- 
ton. The thousands of summer visitors, constantly in- 
creasing in numbers, attest these facts. 



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The County of Kent, in soutlieastern England, is sur- 
rounded on nearly three sides by the waters of the River 
Thames and the English Channel. The Straits of Dover 
divide it from France. Its location invited invasion and 
its rich, productive, soil gave impetus thereto. The Belgae 
from Gaul early made a lodgment there. Cesar landing on 
its shores thence moved his legions, north and west. In 
its early history the inhabitants were numerous and increas- 
ing. The census of 1881 gives 977,585. Commerce and 
its deep seafishing, immense hop-fields and orchards, thriv- 
ing manufactories and ship building, poured wealth into 
the lap of this old county. It was early emancipated, from 
the darkness and thraldom of feudal barbarism. The ten- 
ure by which its lands were holden was free and unhampered 
comparatively. In other parts of England, lands descended 
to the eldest son. In Kent the custom of " Gavelkind " 
prevailed, by which all the sons inherited alike. In the 
patent of Gov. Dongan to "The Trustees of the Freeholders 
and Commonalty of the Town of East-Hampton," lands were 
to be holden "in free and common socage, according to the 
Manor of East Greenwich in the county of Kent, within his 
majesty's realm of England." The home of our ancestors 
there, in its level 'plains and surrounding seas, had like 
features here. There as "Kentish men" they were known 
as substantial freeholders. Here in thrift, in industry, in 
economy, in liberality, they retained the characteristics of 
their Kentish home. In my early practice I often heard 
from a testator the remark "I must give something to my 
children or the will will be void," probably a tradition of 
the old home, like that of "cutting him off with a shilling." 

The English Maidstone from whence our ancestors came 
is located chiefly on the eastern bank of the River Medway, 
about 30^ miles E. S. E. of the city of London, in a rich 



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agricultural district in tlie county and hundred of Kent, 
and Lathe of Aylesford, . The cit} or tc>wn of Maidstone, 
has for centuries possessed a charter, and is the shire town 
or capital of the county where its courts are holden. In 
1891, its population was 52,150. Its main street ran nearly 
northeast and southwest. Our ancestors in East-Hampton, 
as if planning from the same model, laid out their main 
street in the same direction. From early times the bor- 
ough of Maidstone, sent two members to Parliament. The 
inhabitants of the city and county from the earliest history 
were devoted to the cause of freedom, and jealous of their 
rights. In the court which tried Charles the 1st, Andrew 
Broughton mayor of Maidstone was a secretary, and as such 
read the sentence of death to the King. 

The citizens of Maidstone, trained in the vicinity of 
courts, were familiar with the foundation principles of law, 
and with Jury trials. As qualified voters there, they were 
acquainted with the elective franchise, and the right of rep- 
resentation in government. Their records demonstrate a 
capacity for free government, which we might infer they 
owed somewhat to their training in the motherland. Out 
of chaos th^y evolved order. They overcame anarchy, re- 
pressed riot, subdued lawlessness. They framed and en- 
forced rules, constitutions, laws, government. They were 
based on the intelligence, the virtue, the piety of the first 
settlers, a} d they securely reposed on those solid founda- 
tions. The inquest held at the death of George Miller, in 
1668, and at the death of John Talmage, in 1670, evince a 
disposition to comply with the demands of law and famil- 
iar 'ty with its forms unusual in frontier settlements. 

They not only felt the responsibility of self government, 
but they fully determined that each one of their number 
should discharge his duty. With them there was no es- 



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caping the burdens of government — no shirking it ofl upon 
a few of their number. Measures were taken to compel 
every one to -ittend their Town Meetings, as has been seen. 
(See Chap. I, p. 11.) 

Further measures were taken, that when thej were as- 
sembled in their Town Meetings, every one should express 
his opinion, and tha* too, in such a manner that all might 
know it. With them no bold minority could overawe the 
timid majorit}-. 

The following Order, entered on the records, expresses 
their opinion in their own language ; 

"Nov'r 2nd, 1652. — Every man to vote by holding up his 
hands, under penalty of 6d ; the thing being before delib- 
erately debated." 

Nor did they stop here. They understood and acted upon 
the principle, that each one, as a member of their commu- 
nity, owed certaiii public duties, the discharge of which 
were as imperative upon him as those arising out of his 
private or domestic relations. When once the duty was 
settled, the rights of their community upon the individual 
were rigorously exacted. Entertaining these opinions, and 
with this end in view, they passed the following enact- 
ment : 

"October 7th, 1656. — It is ordered that if any being 
chosen Secretarie or Constable, refuse to serve, and not 
give a sufficient reason, shall pay 30s ; and if any being 
chosen Townsmen, refuse without a reason, shall pay 40s. 

Those three orders, compelling under penalty, attend- 
ance at TownMe-tings, voting when there, and acceptance of 
office when elected, show their clear and perfect apprehen- 
sion of public rights, and with their other acts, exhibit the 
founders of this little Commonwealth, as worthy of being 
the founders of au empire. 



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They knew, likewise, right well where, and by whom, 
and in what proportions the pecuniai'y burdens of the com- 
monwealth should be borne. They enacted a rule by which 
each man himself should give an account of his property 
to the proper taxing ofl&cefs ; and in the same enactment 
they coupled a penal provision against a fraudulent con- 
cealment of any part of the estate. 

"November 8th, 1656. — It is ordered that concerning 
men's giving in their States for the Hates, that whosoever 
shall not give in their whole estates that is visible, what- 
ever is not given in according; to order, the partie so doing 
shall lose the one-half of those goods not given in for the 
late." 

It may well be doubted whether any advancement has 
been made in the system of equitable taxation since the 
days of our forefathers. And in these times of shuilling off 
the performance of public duties, and more particularly of 
individual concealment and evasion for the purpose of 
avoiding the just proportion of the public taxes and bur- 
dens, it may not be improper for legislators to consider 
the preceding provisions of our fathers, as a remedy for 
this prevalent evil, and we commend it to their notice and 
consideration. 

Amid the scarcity of money it was found convenient to 
pay their rates in produce of their farms or in whale oil or 
other commodities, and accordingly that primitive method 
of payment was adopted. The schoolmaster, the minister, 
and public officers were paid their salaries and fees in like 
manner. For the satisfaction of the curious, I have given 
the following extracts from their records : 

"Dec'r 8th, 1656. — It is ordered by the 3 men, that for 
the payment of the towns rates, wheat shall be paid at 4.9. 
and 6d. per bushel, and Indian corn at 3s. and 6(1." 

" On a meeting of the trustees, being legally met, March 



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Btli 1688-9, it was agreed that this year's towne rate should 
be held to be good pay if it be paid as follows : 

Dry merchantable hides att 0?. Os. Qd. 

Indian corn OZ. 3s. Od. 

Whale Bone, 3 feet long and upwards 0?. Os. 8d. 

and what other ways is paid, lett the rule in the county 

rate be your directions." 

The Puritan theory of government included the church 
as an inseparable, if not controlling element. Their gov- 
ernment was no godless, no atheistic, no mere earthly and 
worldly power. The colony at East-Hampton, while not 
denyino- the elective franchise to non-church members, was 
impelled by the strong current of the church. The church 
and the towns were so far identical that all the churches 
erected during the first two centuries were built and paid 
for by authority of the town as a town charge. The salar- 
ies of all the ministers for nearly or quite that period were 
paid by the town authorities as a part of the town expense. 
It seems singular to find this record of the action of the 
Town Meeting as late as 1840: "Voted that the whole 
amount due from the parish for the parsonage house and 
six months salary of the Rev. Mr. Ely be levied on the tax- 
able property of this town and collected by the town col- 
lector " And again in 1847 : "Voted that all the pews and 
slips be hired out in the meeting house and the money aris- 
ing from the rent thereof be appropriated to defray the nec- 
essary expenses of the meeting house, and the overplus 
towards the payment of the clergyman's salary." The church 
and parsonage were built and owned by the town. The town 
Trustees managed and controlled them. While a student of 
hiw I inquired of an old deacon of the church where was 
the title. He answered "In the town," adding, "you now 
see how it behooves us sacredly to guard the town govern- 
ment." The impress of the church was indelibly stamped 



12g 

upon the town. Its claims to be supported by the town 
seem to have been here perpetuated long after they had 
vanished elsewhere. It is noticeable that although Con- 
necticut repudiated the restriction of freemen and the elec- 
tive franchise to church members which Massachusetts and 
New Haven ordained, yet their overshadowing influence 
constrained the delegates of the -xeneral Assembly at Hart- 
ford, Oct. 13th, 1664, to vote : "The court desires yt ye 
several officers of the respective churches would be pleased 
to consider whether it be not the duty of the court to order 
the churches to practice according to the premises if they 
do not practice without such an order." It should be un- 
derstood that previous to this vote complaints had been 
made that applicants thereto had been denied church mem- 
bership. That the court do "commend it to the ministers 
and churches in this colony whether it be not their duty 
to entertain all such persons who are of an honest and 
godly conversation, having a competency of knowledge in 
the principles of religion and shall desire to join wit h them 
in church fellowship by an explicit covenant, and that they 
have their children baptized, and that all the children of 
the church be accepted and accounted real members of the 
church, and that the church exercise a due Christian care 
and watch over them, and that when they are grown up, 
being examined by the officers in the presence of the 
church, it appear in the judgment of charity they are duly 
qualified to participate in that great ordinance of the Lord's 
Supper by their being able to examine themselves and dis- 
cern the Lord's body, such persons be admitted to full 
communion." — Vid Connecticut Colonial Records, Vol. I, 
p. 438. For tAvo hundred years the thought of New Eng- 
land in religion, in morals, in manners, in education, in 
agriculture, in commerce, in industry, in scientific progress. 



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iu free aspiration, in liuraan sympathy, in individual and 
national being, in what animates and restricts the sphere 
of human action was the thought of East-Hampton. As an 
evidence of their views of their own rights and a determi- 
nation not to sufifer an infringement therein, we find the 
following record : 

" November 24, 1656— It is alsoe ordered that uoe Indi- 
an shall travel up and dowue or carrie any buixlens in or 
through our Towne on the Sabbath Day. Whoever is 
found so doing, shall be liable to corporall punishment. 

Conscious as they were of the evils of intemperance, one 
of their first efforts was to guard against its seductive in- 
fluences. In 1651 the General Court p.issed the following 
Act or Order : 

"That no man shall sell any liquor but such as are dep- 
uted thereto by the town, and such men shall not let youth, 
and such as are under other men's management remain 
drinking at unseasonable hours, and such persons shall not 
have above half a pint at a time among four men. 

How solicitous to preserve the peace and morals of their 
community ! How guarded against the inroads of vice ! 
How watchful in their care over the young ! 

Nor did their sympathy or their vigilance stop here. 
Knowing the sad havoc which spirituous liquors had made 
with the aborigines, as well as their unconquerable thirst 
for t!iose liquors, they passed laws for the prohibition of 
the evil, and the protection of the Indians. 

"Mav 28th, 1655.— It is ordered that for the prevention 
of drunkeness among the Indians, by selling strong water— 
First, That no man shall carry any to them to sell, nor 
send them any, nor imploy any to sell for them. Nor sell 
them any liquor in the Town for the present drinking 
above 2 Drams at one time, and to sell to no [ndian but 
such as are sent by the Sachem, and shall bring a written 



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Ticket from liira, which shall be given him from the town, 
and he shall not have above a quart at a time." 

Enlargement might be made to an indefinite extent, upon 
the characteristic traits of our ancestors. And while there 
is much in their history in which their descendants may 
well exult — much reflecting equal credit upon their under- 
standing and their heart, we are assured from an attentive 
search, that there is liitle of which we need be ashamed. 

Stern and unyielding as they were in their adherence to 
duty, tenacious as they were of their rights, uncompromis- 
ing in their sense of justice, they yet Imd the most tender 
sympathy and kindness, mingled with the more rugged ele- 
ments of their nature ; and when there was an appropriate 
field, they rarely failed to manifest them. Their commis- 
seration and sympathy is most touchingly displayed in ex- 
empting the unfortunate and the poor from public burdens, 
and in protecting, with a strong arm, the helplessness of 
the widow. 

At a very early day, and before the year 1700, they man- 
ifested their kindness and sympathy in voluntarily provid- 
ing for the wants of a poor cripple who was a sojourner 
among them. They conveyed her to the west end of the 
Island, where medicine, advice and assistance could be ob- 
tained, (there being then no physician among them,) and 
they freely paid out large sums of money .it different times 
on account of the support, maintenance, and the medical 
aid furnished abroad, to this child of suffering and want, 
as their records still show. 

As a homely, and yet substantial token of their sympa- 
thy and kind regard, they exempted wid'.ws from those 
labors and burdens which their generosit}' led them to sup- 
pose devolved on others. After naming all the proprietors 
of the Town, liable to fence the common "Pasturing Field," 



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placing one column on the sid^ of Widow Baker, and one 
on the side of Widow Mulford, they say : 

"At a meeting of the Trustees, being legally met, Aprill 
ye 12th, 1689, it was Ordered by ye s'd Trustees, that all 
the above s'd Parsons do cause their proportion in the 
above s'd Fence to be sufficiently sett up forthwith ; so 
that ye said Widdoivs may be preserved from Dammcujefi 
coming throw any neglect therein ; or expect no other fav- 
or than the Law will allow each man yt neglects his Duty 
herein, viz : to have it sett up for him, and he to pay the 
double vallu thereof, to him that shall sett up the same. 
The above s'd forthwith is allowed till Wednesday night, 
next insuing the date hereof, and not farther. ' 



CHAPTER IX. 



(rovernmeiil Imjmrfial, p. 132. Pri(cfeiif, ji. 1SS, Forest 'pro- 
tected, p. IBS. Combination with ('oinierticnt and New- 
Engla)id, p. ]3'5. Assejnhly of 10(16, p. 13S. Dnplicity of 
the Bake of York, p. 13S. Southampton disputes the line, 
p. 139. Some old lots located, p. 13!). Emigratitni, p. 140. 
Wealth and popnlat ion, 141. The iea-kettte, p. 142. Stand- 
point for a ijiew, p. 142. 



The rights of the humblest inhabitaut were guarded with 
the same care that exacted the performauce of duty from 
the most honored. When Lion Gardiner, leaving to his son 
the care and management of his Island, removed, to enjoy 
the congenial society and friendship of the settlement in 
East-Hampton, he took upon himself, with the privileges, 
all the obligations of a freeman. Oct. 10th, 1655, he was 
by the Town Meeting appointed "to call forth men by turns 
to look out for whales at all seasons as he shall appoint." 
For the prevention of tires two men were appointed to ex- 
amine chimnies monthly and see that they were so built 
and cleaned as to be secure. Feb. 4:th, 1656, Lion Gardi- 
ner was one ol' the two men so chosen. The renowned 
commander of Saybrook fort, the proprietor of an Island a 
manor and lordship of itself, the friend and compeer of 
Wyandance and Winthrop, thought it not beneath his dig*- 
nity to serve the Plantation in promoting its prosperity in 
whaling and its safety from conliagratiou. His fellow 
townsmen, in choosing him to discharge these duties, in- 
tended no discredit to the man whose ijierits they ever 



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owned and honored. When in 1660 Thomas Cliatfiekl and )C^ 
Robert Dayton neglected to pay their dues to Mr. James 
"for the work of the ministry," although among the most 
reputable settlers, a Avarrant of attachment was issued to 
enforce payment by seizure of their goods. When in 1657 
infirmities aliHicted William Hedges, in view of his hard 
lot, "he is freed from paying rates." The justice that rig- 
orously exacted the performance of obligation from those 
who had the ability was tempered with mercy to those Avho 
by misfortune were disabled. 

The Town Meeting of 7th Octobei, 1651, ordered "that 
the three men shall have power after the 10th of March to 
to call forth men to burn the woods," and "that every man 
that hath a house shall within six weeks get a ladder that 
may reach so high that a man may go to the top of his 
house." October 28th, 1651, "It is ordered that whosoever 
shall deliver hie to any without they have a thing to fetch 
it that is closely covered shall be liable to pay five shil- 
lings." 

The roof and sometimes sides of the first built houses 
were thatched and very easily fired. The hardships of the 
Pioneers were alleviated by habitations both rude and 
scanty. The loss of ou(^ and endangering more, Avould l)e 
a calamity we now can hardly measure. If the forest was 
burned in early Spring the upper layer of leaves only would 
be consumed. The low, slow smouldering fire would not 
blaze so high or giow so hot as to destroy the growing 
wood. It checked the growth of weeds and underbrush 
and increased that of the nutritious grasses which fed the 
game and cattle. The experience of the Indian became the 
property and experience of the English colonist. The dis- 
astrous forest fires of a later season were prevented by an 
early burning. In this preventive and permissive legisla- 



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tion, designed to guard agaiust danger that might ruin the 
plantation there is no element of uncalled for severity. 
Both wisdom and prudence would prompt the authorities 
to enact in positive law just what we find they put on en- 
during record. 

The idea of an uncultivated territory, and of a primeval 
forest thoughtlessly reiterated as designating the character 
of the country at its first settlement, is misleading. There- 
by we naturally conceive that then the woods of gigantic 
trees extended unbroken over the surface of the earth. 
Evidence abounds that this conception is incorrect. Silas 
Wood, writing of Long Island more than four score years 
gone by, remarks on the scarcity of timber and assigns as 
a cause the annual burning of the woods by the Indians. 
He cites records of orders prohibiting the sale of wood "for 
pipe staves or heading," and "to any person not being a 
townsman." 

November 10th, 1668, the Constable and Overseers in 
East-Hampton ordered "that there shall not any man fall 
young small trees for palasadas, fence," &c. "in the com- 
mon." 

At a court of sessions held at Southold, June 6, 7 and 8, 
1676, an order reciting the scarcity of "good timber" in 
the town of East-Hampton under penalty of ten shillings 
for every tree, without a license, &c., prohibits all persons 
having "no allottment" from "cutting or using any timber," 
&c. "fit for building or fencing or for the use of coopers in 
making casks." A recital of the date of April 7th, 1713, 
that "the sheep and swine running on our commons made 
the fencing stuff "scarce" is further evidence, and as a 
known fact that cattle grazing in woods will in time defor- 
est the pasture, it points to a cause. 

The Trustees' order, October 16th, 1716, "that there 



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shall be twelve men sent to Mr. Gardiner's island to get 
timber in order to the building of a new meeting house," 
confirms the then scarcity of timber and the tradition that 
the proprietor of the Island contributed as a free gift the 
timber for the frame of the church of 1717. 

The town of East-Hampton united in alliance with the 
colony of CouuecHcut, November 7th, 1649. The records 
of that colonj- of that date recite : "It is further ordered 
that East-Hampton of Long Island sliall be accepted and 
entertained under this Government, according to their im- 
portunate desire." May 20th, 1658, that colony voted "a 
confirmation of the combination with East-Hampton," &c. 
At the same time, regarding the jurisdiction of magistrates, 
it was ordered : "And that those of Southampton and East 
Hampton shall joyne together in the exercise of judicature 
amongst them and to summon juries out of either place ; 
and that they have liberty to repair to any court held at 
New London for help in any controversy." In 1662 South- 
old was admitted into the same combination and its inhab- 
itants advised, if occasion n quired, "to repair to South and 
East-Hampton to ye authority there settled b}' this court." 
May 26th, 1643, the colonies of Massachusetts, Plymouth, 
Connecticut and New Haven, with the plantations in com- 
bination with them, adopted articles of confederation for 
their mutual welfare and protection. The combination 
with Connecticut made East-Hampton not only a member 
of the colony of Connecticut but also a member of the gen- 
eral confederation of the four colonies. Thereby East- 
Hampton Avas bound to the defence of Connecticut and the 
whole confederation, a^jd they were all pledged to aid in 
her defence. The confederation was called "The United 
Colonies of New England." It was represented by two 
Commissioners chosen from each colony. While local and 



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internal affairs in each town and colony were left to their 
control, questions of offence and defence, mutual advice 
and succor upon all occasions, both for preserving and 
propagating the truth and liberties of the gospel, of their 
own mutual safety and welfare, "were controlled by Com- 
missioners representing the colonies so leagued and con- 
federated. Except "the exigency constrained, one colony 
might not engage in war" "without the consent of all." 
Except "by consent of all," no two members shall be united 
in one, and no new members shall be received. The ap- 
pointment of men, money and supplies for war were to be 
assessed on the respective colonies in proportion to the 
male population, "between the ages of sixteen and sixty," 
and "the spoils of war were to be distributed to the several 
colonies on the same principle. The concurrence of six 
Commissioners controlled, and failing this, the questions 
being referred to the general courts of the several colonies, 
the concurrence of them all was binding. The Commis- 
sioners were to meet yearly on the first Thursday in Sep- 
tember, and oftener if occasion required, at places pre- 
scribed. The choice of a President, the general policy of 
proceedings towards Indians, the return of fugitives from 
justice or service, the remedy for breach of the alliance by 
an offending colony- — all these subjects were included in 
and provided for, in the Articles of Alliance and Confeder- 
ation. Thus early on Ameiican soil was instituted this 
first of all confederacy of colonies, so complete in its antic- 
ipation of contingencies, in its conception of surroundij^gs, 
in its adaptation to circumstances, that it endured assaults, 
external and internal, for twenty years, until the invasion 
and subjection of New Netherlands by the Eeglish, and the 
enforced rule of Eoyal Governors in 1664, under the then 
Duke of York, afterwards King James the second. This 



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league, so complete in its extent, so just its provisions, so 
wise in its principles, so practical in its policy, comprised 
in its scope the democracy of the Town Meeting, the rep- 
resentation of towns in the Colonial Assembly, (called also 
the General Court), the representation of the united colo- 
nies in the body of Commissioners. Seemingly complex it 
was in reality simple. Its teachings were well fitted for 
the work it had to do. 

In all local and town affairs the practical knowledge of 
the yeomanry of the town in Town Meeting assembled, sur- 
passed that of any non-resident, however wise. They knew 
their wants, their grievances, their interests, their ability 
and inability, and could devise the best measures for relief 
or redress. The delegates of the towns composing the col- 
ony, assembled as its highest Court or Legislature, repre- 
senting the whole and every part of the colony, could wise- 
ly legislate and decide for all. The Commissioners of the 
United Colonies representing their union and clothed with 
powers that covered, and only covered, subjects of general 
concern, affecting the welfare and safety of all the United 
Colonies, conld best legislate for the union. The thought 
of the reader outstrips the words of the writer. This ma- 
chinery of government by towns, by colonies, by confed- 
erated states, foreshadowed what was to come. The search 
of the early history of these colonies, brings to mind the 
flashing conviction that therein the free institutions of this 
wonderful Nation were born. The self-constituted govern- 
ment of East-Hampton, and other early settlements in 
their Town Meetings or General Courts, was an ancestral 
immunity transmitted to posterity, and now surviving in 
the modern "ToAvn Meeting." The delegates from the 
towns in a colon}- assembled as its Legislature, and called 
its "General Court," foreshadowed the State governments, 



138 

which were born uf the colonies. The confederation and 
union of the New England colonies, including the colony 
of Connecticut, which with other towns included East- 
Hampton, predicted the coming union of the colonies and 
independent States. The Colonial Congress must grow 
out of the root of the New England confederacy and union. 
On the conquest of New Netherlands by Gov. Ricliard 
Nicolls, acting for the Duke of York, in 1664, the Governor 
by proclamation, called for the election of two representa- 
tives from each town, who were elected and attended the 
convention at Hempstead, March 16th, 1665. Thomas 
Baker and John Stratton, were the deputies from East- 
Hampton. The delegates continued in session but two or 
three days only. The proclamation of the Royal Commis- 
sioners, antecedent to the conquest, promised the people 
protection "and all other privileges with his majesties sub- 
jects." The colonies of New England, Maryland and Vir- 
ginia enjoyed the privileges of a representative Assembly. 
The language of the proclamation gave the people of Long 
Island ground for expecting the same privilege. By letters 
to Captain John Young and Major John Howell, the Gov- 
ernor had assured them "that the people should enjoy the 
privileges of equal "freedomes and immunities," if not 
greater, "than any of his majesties colonies in New Eng- 
land." All this prior to the Assembly meeting at Hemp- 
stead, followed by that, satisfied the people that their hopes 
of representation would be gratified. When the Duke of 
York had pacified the people, and established his power, 
he conveniently forgot the promises of his Governor. The 
next Assembly convened in 1683, because of the difficulty 
of levying by tax and customs sufficient means to supply 
the wants of government in other ways. The Duke of York 
conceded representation unwillingly, and only as a means 



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to replenish his treasury. His perfidy in England was no- 
torious in America. The name of the Royal Stuarts the 
world over, stood as a synonym for falsehood. 

Every State and almost every farm has had its boundary 
disputes and questions, and it would be singular if such a 
difficulty had never ruffled the tranquility of t^e citizens of 
our Town. In accordance with all historic analogy we find 
that during the first half century from the settlement of 
the Town, a violent dispute was at difi'erent times carried 
on in reference to the Division Line between the two towns. 
East-Hampton claimed much more than Southampton 
would concede, and at one time extended her claim to "Hog 
Neck," (now North Haven.) This contest continued thrice 
the period of the Trojan War, was finally settled on the 
25th of June, 1605, by men chosen from the two Towns 
and a highway one rod each side of the line, was laid out. 
Their decision remains of record. 

The men chosen were as follows : 



EAST-HAMPTON MEN. 

Josiah Hobart, 
>^ Robert Dayton, 
John Wheeler, 
Cornelius Conkling, 
John Mulford, 
James Hand, 



SOUTHAMPTON MEN. 

Edward Howell, 
Joseph Pierson, 
Elnathan Topping, 
Samuel Cooper, 
John Cook, 
Henry Pierson, 
Abraham Howell. 
Previous to 1673, John Osborn's lot, lying on the east 
side of Main street, south of a highway and just south of 
where the present church stands, together with the high • 
way, were purchased by the town for a parsonrge, "it being 
in the hart of the Towne." 

In 1676, December 18th, the same premises described as 
consisting of "fourteen acres," bounded by Robert Dayton 
south, and John Wheeler north, were conveyed by the 



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to-rm to "Captaine Josiah Hobbert," whom they have "late- 
lie accepted as an inhabitant amongst them." — Book A, p. 
73, Town Records. 

At a very early period emigration commenced from al- 
most all parts of Long Island to other colonies.* 

In the letter of Gov. Hunter to the Board of Trade, April 
1716, he remarks : 

"I cannot say that the inhabitants increase in that pro- 
portion, (at least) as they do in the neighboring provinces, 

Note. — Among the manuscript papers of J. Lyon Gardiner, deceased, 
exists a rough draft of part of East-Hampton Main street, representing 
localities and residences in 1655. On the south-east side of the street, 
adjoining the lot of William Hedges, one of the first settlers, is marked 
off the "Calf Pasture," which afterwards became "the Parsonage," and 
since 1849 has been sold by the Trustees of the Presbyterian Church to 
John Hedges, and by him incorporated with the seven acres and a half 
which formed the "home lot" of his ancestor, William Hedges. 

This draft represents the home lot of those who resided on the west 
side of the street, extending northward as far as Mrs. Buell's (formerly 
Catherine's) Lane, and locates them in the following order, commenc- 
ing southwardly : John Stratton, Thomas Talmage, Robert Bond, John 
Mulford, Arthur Howell, Thos. Thomson, Thos. Baker, Wm. Mulford. 

The house formerly owned by William L. Osborn, of East-Hampton, 
next south of the residence of his father. Deacon Abraham Osborn, is 
supposed to stand upon or near the ancient residence of Thomas Tal- 
mage. And the house formerly owned by Col. Samuel Miller is sup- 
posed to stand upon the lot and perhaps upon the very foundation of 
the house of Thomas Baker, the first Inn Keeper of East-Hampton. 

It is a most singular coincidence, and striking proof of the former 
comparative populousness of the town, that after the lapse of 195 years 
the precise number of houses now stand upon the same space where 
the same number stood in 1655. 

*Byan examination of theEecords I lindfrom conveyances and other 
recorded papers that Thomas Simons, formerly of East-Hainpton, re- 
moved to Little Ptiver, in Albemarle county, before 1684. Jonathan 
Osborn, formerly of East-Hampton, removed to Cape May as early as 
1690. John Shaw, grandson of Joshua Garlicke, and sou of Richard 
Shaw, one of the first planters of East-Hampton, resided in Cape May, 
in "West Jersie," in 1693. Thomas Hand resided in Cape May in 1697. 
John Parsons resided there in 16V)9. Jacob Dayton resided there in 
1699, and became a Justice of the Peace for the county of Cape May. 
Benjamin Mulford, a brother of Thomas Mulford, who was eldest son 
of Wm. Mulford, of East-Hampton, then resided there. John Chatfleld 
removed to Cape May before 1700. Edwai'd Osborn resided in "Eliza- 
beth-Town, in East Jersey," in 1701. Ephraim Edwards resided in Cape 
May in 1702. Joseph Hand, Sr., resided in Guilford, Connecticut, in 
1693. John Davis resided in New Haven, Ct., about the same time. It 
is supposed that all the above named persons removed with their fami- 
lies from East-Hampton. 



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where the purchases of land are easier had than with us. 
Great numbers of the younger sort leave Long Island year- 
ly, to plant in the Jersevs and Pennsylvania." — Doc. His. 
N. Y., Vol. I, p. 692. 

Sufiblk County, for a very long period of time, remained 
the fourth and fifth county of the State in the aggregate 
amount of population. In 1698 the whole population of 
Suffolk County amounted to 2,679. The population of 
East-Hampton at this time was probably at last from one 
fourtli to one -fifth of the population of Suffolk County. 

The following memoranda upon the Town Records, throw- 
still more light upon the subject ■ 

"Feb. 17th, 1703. — £56, 15s, Od, was pVl, being East- 
Hampton's quota of £270, wliicii tlie county of Suffolk was 
rated att, as their proportion of £1800 tax laid by the last 
Gen'l Assembly upon the whole Provi'ice, for securing the 
Frontier. Fauconniere Com'r." 

It will be seen that Sufiblk County paid over one-seventh 
of the whole tax of the Btate at that time, and East-Hamp- 
ton more Ihan one-fifth part of the tax of the whole County 
of Sufiblk. 

According to the Rat*- List of the towu, made out in 
1683, it appears that there were then 71 taxable inhabi- 
tants in the Town, exclusive of the minister ; and it may 
be inferred that the population of the Town was then at 
least 350, and rapidly increasing after that period.'^ 

Sequestered from the rest of the world, shut out from 
its intercour.-e, uniufiuenced by its fashions, and to a great 
degree unrufiled by its passions, a race of freemen arose— 
hardy, contemplative, intelligent — and yet retaining the 
manners, language, dress and appearance of their ancestors, 
untarnished, unalterable and uncorrupted, for more than a 
century. The grace and polish of more modern times, 



*For rate lists of ICwj and 1083 see Ap|jeiulix. 



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might not have adorucd their carriage, but the frankness, 
intelligence and noble bearing of freemen, dignified their 
gigantic forms. Their ignorance of the passing customs of 
the world might sometimes render it difficult for the more 
deeply initiated to repress a smile, while their sterling 
qualities of head and heart would ever redeem them from 
contempt. 

John Lyon Gardiner, deceased, the father of the late 
Samuel B. lardiner, Esq., of East-Hampton, as has already 
been intimated, reduced to writing, much of the early tra- 
ditionary history of East-Hampton. In his memoranda, 
under the date of June 15th, 1794, the following amusing 
incidents are related : 

"Mrs. Miller, my overseer's mother, now living here with 
him, about 78 years old, was a Hedges, and lived at Mon- 
tauk when a girL She could speak Indian. 

"Mrs. Miller remembers well when they first began to 
drink tea on the east end of Long Island. She tells a num- 
ber of curious stories about their awkward manner of using 
it. One family boiled it in a pot aiid eat it like samp-por- 
ridge. Another spread the leaves on his bread and butter, 
and bragged of his having eat half a pound at a meal, to 
his neighbor, who was informing him how long a time a 
pound of tea lasted him. She remembers the first tea- 
kettle that was in East-Hampton. It came ashore at Mon- 
tauk in a ship, (the Captain Bell.) The farmers came down 
there on business with their cattle, and could not find out 
the use of the tea-kettle, which was then brought up to old 
'Governor Hedges'.' Some said it was for one thing, and 
some said it was for another. At length one, more know- 
ing than his neighbors, affirmed it to be the ship's lamp, 
to which they all assented." 

The narrow life, the unyielding spirit, the overshadowing 
parental restraint, the stern adherence to the letter of Sab- 
bath observance, the intolerance of a differing religious 
sentiment, the severity of punishment inflicted on the trans- 



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gressor, tlie strictness of dicipline iu the famil}' and church 
and state, the small measure of mercy and the large and 
unalloyed measure of justice administered in the conduct 
of affairs public and private, fostered occasional opposition 
then. They have incurred the condemnation of the present 
generation, and sometimes the censure of the descendants 
of Puritan forefathers, as if these unlovely traits were at- 
tributable -solely to those forefathers rather than to the age • 
and the people then living. The stream of history, ever 
flowing like a river, is ev^er changing. The standpoint of 
to-day has back of it centuries of thought fraught with the 
conquests of truth, Avith the eontribations of art, of science, 
of literature, of culture, and is not the standpoint for a cor- 
rect judgment of a far past age. Go back on the march of 
time two and a half centuries ; leave behind the landmarks 
of progress; blot out the triumphs of freedom, the discov- 
eries of enterprise, the achievements of science, the inven- 
tions of the mechanic arts, the light of universal education. 
Stand where they stood and measure our forefathers by the 
thought, the culture, the sentiment, the piety, the liberality 
of their compeers, and our ancestors will suflt'er nothing in 
the comparison. Besides all this enemies imperilled the 
safety of the early settlements, which made the enforce- 
ment of martial or preservative law an imperative duty. 
On the line where advancing civilization confronts barbar- 
ism, tramps, oiitlaws, vagabonds, villains, march with the 
piouv ers of light and letters. The records of courts in 
East-Hampton show some of these there. If banished, its 
citizens are regarded as intoha'ant. If suffered to remain, 
they are censured as if conniving at their acts. The loud 
complaints of these classes that their liberty was restrained 
have reverberated througli the ages. Appealing to that 
element of the soul which intuitively condemns oppression, 



their outcries enlisted as advocates the sons of Puritans, 
who should have justified their fathers in driving drones 
from the hive. With the foremost saints whose feet trod 
the soil of this fair old town, came "Border Ruffians," 
whose misdeeds have been charged to those who strove 
with all their power to prevent them. The culprits have 
been absolved, and the innocent charged with their crimes. 
The Great West resents the stigma that her people are de- 
fined as "Border Ruffians." With like indignant protest 
can the sons of Puritan sires justly demand that they be 
exempted from the like injustice. The novice who is sure 
that his surface view is the true one has sometimes con- 
vinced many that the Puritans committed the deeds they 
abhorred, while the earnest searcher after truth has dis- 
covered that the evidence acquitted them. 



CHAPTEE X. 



The Revolution, }:>. 145. Major Cochrane, p. 147. The Ref- 
uges, p. 149. The CuUoden, p. 149. Major Andre, p. 149. 
Dr. Gardiner, p. 150. Dr. Bucll, p. 150. FopulatUm, p. 
151. The Quit-rent, p. 151. Shipwrecks, 152. The 
Storm, p. 153. The Amistad Case, p. 155. ^^ ^^ 

Allusion has been made in the preceding address to the 
circumstances of East-Hampton at the commencement and 
during the continuance of the Revolutionary war — to the 
entire and united devotion of her inhabitants to their coun- 
try's cause. Their union in expressing their sympathy 
with their brethren of Boston, in the adoption of a series 
of resolutions in their meeting held June 17th, 1774, has 
been noted. About a year thereafter, when the "Associa- 
tion" suggested by the Continental Congress was remitted 
to them for signatures, they came forward in a body, and 
without a solitary exception, signed the Association.* This 
association was said to have been delivered into Congress 
on the 22d of June, 1775, and to have been signed by John 
Chatfield, chairman of the committee, Col. Abraham Gar- 
diner, Burnet Miller, Eev. Samuel Buell, Thomas Wickham, 
member of the first Congress, and fifty-eight others, being 
all the male inhabitants of the Town then capable of bear- 
ing arms. A rare, and perhaps unparalleled instance, of 
unanimity and devotion to the cause of Liberty, under such 
inducements to forsake it. 

*For this Association, and names of the signers, in East-Hanipton, 
see a subsequent page. 



146 

After the battle of Long Island, such of the inhabitants 
as had endangered their safety by their devotion and prom- 
inence in the cause of Liberty, and could command the 
means, as well as many otliers, left, for Connecticut, or some 
other less exposed part r.f the Colonies. Burnet Miller, it 
is said, retired within the American lines, and became a 
Member of Assembly for the County, which station he held 
during the Avar. Thomas Wickham, Avho had been a mem- 
ber of the Provincial Congress, went to Stoiiingtou, Con- 
necticut ; from thence he waged war upon the enemy as a 
privateer in command of a sloop of eight guns, and suc- 
ceeded in taking several prizes. Wickham at one time, 
with several armed boats, attempted a surprise of the ene- 
my's forces at Sag-Harbor. Major Davis and Capt. Grin- 
nell, who had removed to Connecticut in consequence of 
their previous activity and zeal in the Colonial war, were 
also engaged in tue enterprise, and commanded two of the 
boats. Unfortunately the boats were driven on shore. 
Major Davis and the crews were taken priscmers by a Hes 
siau Major and about twenty light horse An attempt was 
made to lire the boats, but Wickham succeeded in bringing 
tiiem off. 

Major Davis was taken to New- York and imprisoned, 
where he died. Tradition has it that he died in conse- 
quence of poison administered in his chocolate. 

A division of the British army was established at South- 
ampton, and there for a time the Tory Governor, Tryou, 
had his quarters. 

An attempt was made to establish the Koyal Govern- 
ment, and officers who had held commissions under the 
King were called upon to enter upon the civil or military 
duties of their office. In East-Hampton none were found 
willing to act under the Royal authority, and Col. Gardiner 



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was put under arrest, and threatened with Martial Law, for 
refusing to call out the militia. 

The people were called out, by orders from headquarters, 
to assemble on a certain day, and take the oath of alleg- 
iance. A few onh' obeyed, and among these one Benuet 
was told by the officer who officiated, to repeat after him 
what he should say. -'Instead of proceeding with the oath 
the officer then gave some farther directions respecting it 
which Bennet immediately rej)eated. The officer explained, 
and Bennet repeated tKe explanation. The officer de- 
nounced his stupidity, and Bennet repeating the abuse 
with undisturbed gravity was turned away as a fool. The 
ridicule this conduct cast upon the whole proceeding, put 
an end to it. The oath was avoided, and the meeting 'dis- 
persed. Perceiving the rigor with which they were op- 
posed, and the folly of resorting to forcible measures, the 
British made little further effort to secure the alliance, or 
subdue the spirit of the people." 

A detachment of the British forces, under Major Cock- 
rane, were stationed at t?ag-Harbor. The country still 
abounds with traditions of his surpassing brutality, passion 
and cruelty. Many are the instances of his flagrant in- 
justice and merciless, uncalled for punishments. And often 
the inhabitants of the town of East-Hamptsn felt the lash 
by the order, or perhaps inflicted by the very hand of this 
ruthless foe. He as well as others higher in command, 
often imposed most onerous burdens upon the people. 
They were called at unseasonable times, to come out with 
their teams, and do service for the British arraj'. Provis- 
ions and cattle were taken, and supplies levied, as the wants 
of the army required, and often the beasts of the plow were 
slain for their sustenance, and their owners ^suffered from 
the loss. Compensation was generally made, but almost 
always at the victor's price. 



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One memorable instance s related in which the fury and 
impetuosity of Cockrane's temper met with a will as strong 
and with a courage as unquailing as his own. 

A vessel had been cast upon the shore at Napeague, east 
of the village of Amagausett, laden with supplies for the 
British army. As usual, the inhabitants were ordered out 
with their teams, to cart the p-ovision to Southampton, for 
the army's use. 

Major Cockran appears to have had some oversight of 
the affair. There was a certain number of barrels, and each 
team took its assigned load ; but on the last load it was 
found that there remained one more barrel than the other 
teams had taken. The load fell to the lot of Jedediah 
*Conkling, of Amagausett, an uncle of the late Jedediah 
Conkling, of Sag-Harbor, a man of small stature but un- 
flinching courage. Conkling took the usual load, left the 
solitary barrel, and was proceeding on his way when he 
was stopped by Cockrane, and ordered to take the remain- 
ing barrel upon his cart. Conkling refused. Cockr..ne 
reiterated his order, and told Conkling he should take it- 
Conkling declared he would not. Each affirmed his decis- 
ion with an oath. Cockrane threatened. Conkling^defi^ed. 
The one approached with his sword waving ; 1 the other, 
erect upon the cart, brandished his long ox goad. Cock- 
rane threatened to strike him dead. Conkling^, declared 
that he would kill him with his goad if he dared approach. 
The British Major finally yielded, and the teamster passed 
on his way. It is said that, as they passed through East- 
Hampton street, the company stopped at the house of Na- 
thaniel Huntting, who then kept tavern ; and Cockrane 
said that Conkling was a man of the most courage he had 
met with on the Island, and requested of him the favor of 
drinking with him, to which the incensed Yankee replied 
that he would not drink with him to save his life. 



149 

Onderdonk's Eevohitionary Incidents of Suffolk County 
gives names of some persons avIio fled from Long Island to 
Connecticut. At the dates given the persons named were 
these : 

1776, 31st Dec, Elisha Mulford and Jonathan Tuthill. 

1777, lOtk Jan , Abraham Hand, Jeremiah Miller, Joseph 

Osborn, John Mulford, John Tuthill, John 
Millf r, Aaron Isaacs, Jr., Elisha Osborn. 

1779, 10th June, Aaron Isaacs, Hartford, Conn. 

1780, 24th Jan., Zebedee Osborn, East Haddam, Conn. 
1780, Nov., Henry Hoppin, " 

From the same authority it appears that "the Culloden, 
in pursuit of French ships from Rhode Island, in a dread- 
ful storm on Monday nif ht, Jan. 22d, 1781, was driven on 
Long Island (at Culloden Point.) The men, gans and 
masts will be saved." 

"July, 1815, 12 tons of pig iron and a long 32 lbs. can- 
non were taken up by a diving machine in Fort Pond Bay, 
being the wreck of the Culloden." — L. I. Star, July 26. 

"The unfortunate Major Andie was, for several weeks, 
quartered at the house of Col. Gardiner, and his gentle- 
manly deportment and generous feelings won the esteem of 
the family. Dr. Nathaniel Gardiner, a son of Col. Gardin- 
er, was a surgeon in the Northern division of the American 
army during the war, and was on a visit to his father at 
this period. Having come within the British lines he was 
liable to he seized as a spy, and tnough the family took 
every precaution to conceal his presence, it was soon per- 
ceived that Andre was not without knowledge of it. He 
forebore, however, any allusion to it, and subsequently ex- 
pressed his regret that their relative situation had prevent- 
ed him from soliciting an interview. Andre afterward re- 
paired to New-York, and his unfortunate fate is well known. 



150 

During the night preceding his untimely death, the young 
surgeon, whom he had thus encountered, .enjoyed by a 
strange coincidence, and in the capacity of an enemy, the 
melancholy pleasure of his society. He left with the fam- 
ily several memorials of friendship. 

Dr. Gardiner continued in the army until the end of the 
Avar, and subsequently, in 1786, '89 and '90, was a member 
of the State Legislature. 

"Col. Gardiner finding his residence in East-Hampton 
unpleasant, and even hazardous, removed with his family 
to Connecticut." 

Although the people suffered from most rigorous, and 
for them ill timed, exactions, it appears that more or less 
friendly intercourse was kept between the officers of the 
British Army and the citizens of the town. Sir William 
Erskine, commander of the British forces on the east end 
of the I&land, seems to have been particularly pleased with 
the society of Dr. Buell, and to some extent to have yielded 
to the Doctor's wishes. 

It is related that on one occasion Erskine had ordered 
the people of East-Hampton to appear with their teams at 
Southampton on the Sabbath. On the preceding Saturday 
Erskine and the Doctor met; when Erskine stated to him 
that he had ordered his people to be at Southampton with 
their teams on the Sabbath. The Doctor replied, "I am 
aware of it, but am myself Commander-i7i- Chief on that day, 
and have annulled the order." It is said that Erskine 
yielded, and revoked the order. 

With Gov. Tryou, Dr. Buell was intimate, and many let- 
ters are still extant which passed between them. 

In the sports of the chase ' Dr. Buell often joined the of- 
ficers of the army, and on one occasion, being late, the 
party despairing of his arrival, had mounted, when he ap- 



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peared iu sight. Sir William Erskine, perceiving his ap- 
proach, ordered them to dismount and receive his friend. 
Lord Percy, tifterwards Duke of Northumberland, and then 
Aid-de-Camp, while impatiently pacing the floor, was in- 
troduced to the Doctor, who asked him what portion of his 
Majesty's forces he had the honor to command. Percy, 
(who was in an ill humor on account of the order to dis- 
mount,) replied, "A Legion of Devils just from Hell." 
"Then," said Dr. Buell, with a low obeisance, "I suppose I 
have the honor to address Beelzebub, the Prince of Devils." 
The severity of the repartee caused Percy to put his hand 
upon his sword, which was instantly rebuked by Sir Wil- 
liam ; and th ^ attention and politeness of the Parson won 
for him the admiration of Percy, long before the chase was 
over. 

After the Revolution, amid the rapid increase of popula- 
tion, and swelling tide of emigration, this ancient settle- 
ment became comparatively of much less importance, and 
bore but a small proportion to the great aggregate of the 
population of the State. 

Spaflford's • lazetteer of New-York, 1813, descriVjes East- 
Hampton as "first settled in 1649 by about thirty families 
from Lynn," &c. Population in 1790, 1,492. Town street 
as having 80 houses ; Wainscott 15 dwellings ; Amagansett 
20 houses ; Acabonac 15 houses ; Northwest 15 houses ; 
with two school houses in "town street," and one in each 
of the obher places. It describes Sag-Harbor as having 80 
houses, and shipping to the amount of about 5,000 tons. 
The population of the town in 1790 was 1,492 ; in 1800, 
1,549 ; in 1820, 1,646 ; in 1830, 1,668 ; in 1840, 2,076 ; in 
1850, 2,122 ; in 1860, 2,267 ; in 1870, 2,372 ; in 1880, 2,516 ; 
in 1890, 2,431. 

Dongan's Patent called for payment of Quit Rent to the 



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Kiug yearly, of "the sum of one lamb, or the value thereof," 
&c. The state of New- York achieving independence of the 
Royal authority, succeeded to the sovereignty of the Crown 
and claimed all quit rents formerly payable to the King. 
In the deep distress following the Revolutionary war the 
Legislature of the State absolved all tenants from payment 
of those rents accruing "between the 29th day of Septem- 
ber, 1775, and the 29th day of September, 1783." By the 
same Act, passed April 1st, 1786, all quit rents could be 
commuted by paying fourteen shillings for every shilling of 
such annual quit rent at any time on or before the first day 
of May, 1787." Other Acts further extended the time of 
payment, showing the humanity of the Legislature "of the 
people for the people." It is presumed the town commut- 
ed this quit rent by payment at an early day. 

A history o^ the vessels wrecked and lives lost on the 
shores of East-Hampton would be intensely interesting and 
tragic, l he first wreck I remember was that of the brig 
Mars, ashore just west of Lily Pond Lane, near Appa- 
quogue, about 1828. She was a large, staunch, almost 
newly built vessel, so far up on the beach that with little 
difficulty the crew attained the land and no life was lost. 
The brig came ashore in fair weather, and not driven there- 
on by a storm. As I remember, the Captain's name was 
Eing. Coming ashore in the night, crowds on the follow- 
ing morning went to view the wreck, and among others 
Capt. Jonathan Osborn, of Wainscott, who closely ques- 
tioned Capt. Ring as to the wind and weather, and whether 
he sounded and how often. Evidently Ring was uncom- 
fortable under the examination and roughly replied to Capt. 
Osborn, "Old fellow, what do you know about a ship ? If 
I should tell you, do you think you would know any more 
than you do now?" Capt. Osborn replied, "I have com- 



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manded a ship, larger thai; your brig, and never ran her 
ashore, either." 

The next vessel I remember wrecked was the barqueship 
"Edward Quesnel," which had been engaged in the sperm 
whale fishery from some eastern seaport, and having a car- 
go of over a thousand barrels of sperm oil, came on shore 
at Napeague beach, about the year 1838, in a north-east 
storm. The ship was a total loss. A part of the cargo was 
saved. Some ten or twelve of the crew were drowned. 
The bodies were drawn up on the beach near the banks. 
A ghastly array of corpses, pitiful to behold. The mortal 
blow leaves on the lifeless body that mark which appalls 
the onlooker even in the home where it fell. On the wild 
ocean, or its wild shore, the surging billows, the grinding 
and groaning wreck, the crash of breaking cargo, the deso- 
lation of the scene adds four-fold to the desolating horror 
of death. That vision of lifeless bodies lying in a row on 
Napeague beach, pale, motionless, ghastly, has followed 
and haunted me in the darisness of night from that day to 

this. 

"By stranger hands their dying eyes w to closed ; 
By stranger hands their decent iimbf composed : 
By stranger hands their funeral knel was rung ; 
By stranger lips their funeral dirge a as sung," 

The territory of Long Island has been exempted from 
earthquakes, blizzards, whirlwinds, waterspouts and stoi ^^is 
to such a degree that little note of them is made. No in- 
stance of damage by earthquake, whirlwind or waterspout 
is known. One great exceptional storm spread wide dis- 
aster over the Island, and its saddened memories have sur- 
vived to this day. The evening of December 23d, 1811, 
was wild, hazy, and with some fog. The writer was in- 
formed that it was so warm that a teamster at the Water- 
mill, from East-Hampton, having procured a wagon load of 



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oysters, at 9 o'clock p. m., thought there was no claDger of 
freezing, and decided not to run them in the barn. Some- 
where about one or two o'clock that night commenced a 
sudden, terrific north east snow storm. In Thomson's 
History of Long Island, Vol. I, p. 276, it is stated "An im- 
mense amount of property was destroyed and many lives 
lost. It is supposed that more than sixty vessels were 
cast ashore upon the north side of . Long Island ; most of 
which were destroyed or so greatly injured as to be of lit- 
tle value. Whole crews were lost ; the mercury fell to 
eight degrees before the storm abated. The snow contin- 
ued to fall, the wind increased almost to a tornado and 
swept over the plains with desperate intensity. It raged 
for twent} -four hours. The snow was so drifted that no 
mail could pass and all travelling was effectually impeded. 
Many vessels were driven upon Lloyd's Neck, Eaton's Neck 
and Gardiner's Island. Thirty-six bilged and stranded 
vessels were counted in one day. The day previous had 
been remarkably pleasant, and the transition from warm to 
cold was so great that in many instances human beings 
perished, on land as well as on water. Sheep expired in 
great numbers, domestic fowl were frozen to death and neat 
cattle were overcome by the severity of the cold. Almost 
every vessel from Hurlgate to Montauk was driven on the 
shore." 

Capt. Conkling and his vessel and crew were lost in 
Long Island Sound at this time. He was a resident of 
Amagansett. Hence old people called this the "Conkling 
Storm," and sometimes the "Christmas Storm." Probably 
the change from temperate to extreme cold weather was 
more sudden and disastrous than any of which we have 
record. My mother told me it was so mild that the horses 
were left in the pasture all night. In the morning my 



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father and his hired man went out, and the first time failed 
to find them in the fierce blinding storm. Exhausted, and 
returning and resting, they again started, and could not see 
them, but by running against them found and took them 
home. 

THE AMISTAD CASE. 

In August, 1839, "a long, low, black schooner" was re- 
ported off Long Island, and about the 26th of that month 
anchored in Fort Pond Bay, at Montauk. A boat put 
ashore on North Neck, manned by blacks, solely, who there 
found Peletiah Fordham and Capt. Harry Green, both of 
Sag-Harbor, gunning, and conferred with them through 
Cinquez, their chief, who, as claimed by Green, contracted 
with him to take charge of the vessel and pilot her into 
Sierra Leone, Africa. 

During the negotiation and conference. Green discovered 
a United States brig from New London, Cl., bearing down 
on this schooner, and suspecting something wrong about 
her, purposely and skilfully, with some peril to himself and 
Fordham, delayed the Africans on shore, who were uncon- 
scious of danger, until when seen by Cinquez, the chief, 
escape was impossible. The chief embarked too late to 
defend his vessel. He jumped overboard, loosing a belt 
containing some 600 doubloons, which sank to the bottom. 
The schooner and all on board were captured and carried 
into New London. 

The later discovered history showed that these Africans 
were slaves, recently imported from Africa, who in trans- 
portation from Havana to an adjacent island, rose on the 
captain and crew, slaying all the whites on board except 
Pedro Montez, a passenger, and Jose Buize, their slave- 
master, who were saved to navigate the vessel to Sierra 
Leone. During the day the vessel was steered by the 



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slaves, by the sun, and during the night at the peril of their 
lives in a northerly course, by the whites. 

In the judicial proceedings at Hartford, the Africans, 
something over thirty in number, were taken there. Up 
to that time they had not spoken, and it was thought they 
were unable to speak a word of English. So thought the 
court, the lawyers, the officials, the spectators, the Aboli- 
tionists who championed their cause, the interested tlious- 
and who were reading and hearing reports of them. When 
Capt. Green testified that he conversed with Cinquez, the 
chief, in English, made a contract with him to take the 
schooner to Sierra Leone for a consideration, detailed other 
conversation with him, the astounding statement was 
deemed a baseless fabrication and he was stamped by all 
onlookers as a perjured witness. Stung with this impeach- 
ment of his veracity and honor, he ap]:ealed to the Court 
for permission to talk with Cinquez — declared that he had 
conversed with him in English and had made him talk and 
could do it again. He finally obtained the promise of the 
desired interview at the opening of the court the following 
morning. His counsel. Gov. Ellsworth, advised him to 
withdraw from the attempt, assigning as reasons his right 
to decline, the probable disinclination of Cinquez to speak 
English, the strong nerve force required of a speaker to 
face thousands, the probability of failure and its disastrous 
results, which counsel was received by Green with the re- 
spect due to his distinguished legal adviser, but in no wise 
changed his resolution. 

Capt. Green told me when he entered the court room the 
next morning it was packed to its utmost capacity. All 
eyes were on him. Cinquez was there. He went up to 
him, took his hand, looked him in the eye and said : "Cin- 
quez, how you do ?" but received no response. 



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Let me here state that Capt. Green's black penetrating 
eyes were keen beyond expression, as if looking into the 
secret soul ; the grip of his hand like the grip of fate. 
Again, and looking sharper, gripping his hand, he asked 
the same question, and again no reply. With sterner look, 
and mightier grip, he asked the third time, and Cinquez, 
overpowered by a spirit mightier than his own, said, "Me 
pretty well ; how Caj^t. Green do ?" 

Then the charge of perjury laid to his door was demon- 
strated to be baseless, and by the event his reputation was 
redeemed from the dishonor universally attributed to him. 
Then it appeared that these Africans, under the word from 
their cliief, had delude! and deceived the court, judge, law- 
yers, officers, witnesses, spectators. Abolitionists, and all. 
In the arts of diplomatic deception the barbarian was in no 
respect inferior. The word once spoken, Green continued 
drawing by degrees and in pigeon English a confirmation 
of his statement of an agreement made with him to pilot 
the schooner to Sierra Leone. The veteran commander of 
a ship visiting all coasts and all tribes and languages, has 
resources of communication with them incredible to the 
inexperienced. 

The public prints of New London had circulated un- 
founded reports of gold left with residents of Long Island, 
through traffic with the Africans, in large sums, and the 
box of doubloons on the schooner was yet unaccounted for 
and unreported. Green asked Cinquez about tliis box and 
obtained answers as to its length, width, depth, and was 
asking him how full it was, and the answer that it was half 
full Mas being given, when of a sudden the conference was 
growing too dangerous for some present, and further de- 
velopments were stopped by the objections of lawyers to 
the continuance of the interview as irrelevant, which the 



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court sustained, and the door Green had just begun to open 
was apparently to the comfort of the objectors, closed. His 
story of the bargain made with the chief, of the box of 
doubloons unreported, was confirmed. He was transformed 
from the obscure, discredited, dishonored witness, to be in 
the estimation of all observers a man of unflinching veraci- 
ty, of undaunted courage, of unquailing nerve, of overcom- 
ing power, a born leader and the hero of the hour. 

On a cold January morning in 1840, on the steps of the 
Tontine Hotel, in New Haven, on my way to the law school 
where I was a student, I saw Capt. Henry Green and Pela- 
tiah Fordham. They had a case to be heard in the United 
States Court, to be there holden on the ensuing Monday. 
As nearly as I remember the steamer Lexington had just 
been burned on Long Island Sound, with all on board lost 
save four persons, and this sad story was the talk of the 
day. Without reports of the Amistad case I must write 
from unaided memory of events transpiring more than half 
a century by gone, and while sure of the main facts, may 
err in minor details. Permission was given for law stu- 
dents to attend the trial. The court sat in the old State 
House, on the green. Judge Judson presided, and a jury 
was impanelled. The court room was packed, and interest 
high wrought and unflagging, animated the audience. The 
questions before the court were of grave magnitude. The 
array of counsel was large, eminent, imposing. Were 
Green and Fordham, as contributors in aiding the capture 
of this schooner by the United States brig Washington, en- 
titled to salvage ? Were the officers and crew of the brig 
so entitled ? If salvage was recoverable should the schoon- 
er pay ? the freight on board pay ? the slaves pay ? or all 
pay? Were the enslaved Africans, fighting their way to 
liberty on the high seas, to be re-enslaved and delivered to 



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their masters, or to the Spanish government, or to be set 
free ? Brainard and Gen. Isham, of New London, grand- 
father of the piesent Eufus Kose, Hungerford and Gov. 
Ellsworth, of Hartford, Baldwin, of New Haven, afterward 
Governor, Seth P. Staples and Theodore Sedgwick, of New- 
York, were some of the lawyers engaged in the case. The 
Alricans, on pleasant days, had been taken from the jail and 
permitted to walk out on the green in charge of officers, 
and theie solicit alms, and sometimes perfoimed somersetts, 
walked on their hands. &c., as an inducement to procure 
more pennies when tLey passed the hat. Cinquez was an 
athlete surpassing all others in these gymnastics. All this 
inflamed curiosity to see them and h=^ar their testimony, it 
being rumored that they would be Avitnesses in their own 
beh-ilf on this trial. National influences and National pol- 
icy, slavery and freedom, humanity and cruelty, North and 
South, right and wrong, were wrestling for the mastery in 
this as a test case. The sallies of wit, the heights of logic, 
the surprise of retort, the crushing of sarcasm, the extent 
of research evoked in this trial, would require a report vo- 
luminous, but. fairly made would be brilliai t, instructive, 
and of intense interest. Often some question of tides, of 
distances would arise and the lawyers and court would say, 
"Capt. Green, how far is it from Fort Pond Bay to New 
London ?" or "how far to New-York ?" and his answer was 
admitted as flual by all concerned. The deference and re- 
spect shown Capt. Green was lo marked feature of this trial. 
His commar ding presence lost nothing in the grand array 
of eminent men there gathered. If this were the appropri- 
ate place, mas er mariners from Sag-Harbor could be named 
whose enterprise and genius would have shone conspicuous 
as navigators in any laud and under any flag. 

That Cinquez, the barbarian chief, unread, unlearned, un- 



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t aughtj'^was born to command, this trial proved. As a wit- 
ness lie was cross-examined concc-rning the murder of the 
master and crew of the schooner, when at their head he led 
the Africans to fight and take the schooner. "Who slew 
the captain V" "Who the crow '?" "What part did such an 
one take ?" "What part did he take ?" He had been 
squatted on his marrow bones on the floor, apparently a 
dull, ignorant heathen. As question after question poured 
in upon him, closer and hotter, he gradually rose. The 
sense of injustice, of wrong, wreaked upon J im and his 
people ; of his absolute right to break all bonds and battle 
for freedom, overpowered him. I see hini now, hesitation 
overcome by the storm of feeling ; indignation animating 
every feature ; the loftiest scorn beaming from his massive 
brow ; the most expressive go^ tures wa^ed from his manly 
arm ; the most overpowering eloquence flowing from his 
lips ; the commanding air and attitude, all told that this 
man knew that he had come to and must meet the crisis of 
his life. I have heard orations and eloquence expressed 
in words I understood. I never hoard his eloquence sur- 
passed although uttered in words not understood. All 
knew he was justifying his course in fighting for liberty. 
All were overpowered by his outburst as if it were the ir- 
resistible lightning from heavoji. All, court, lawyers, spec- 
tators, were unconscious of tlie impropriety of this exhi- 
bition in a court of justice, until after what seemed some 
fifteen minutes, a lawyer mentioned to the court the fact 
and was sustained. Thus long, amazement at the unex- 
pected display cf human genius held judgment in abeyance. 
The trial occupied the entire week, from Monday morning 
until Saturday afternoon. Sometime during Friday it was 
discovered that the testimony of the African witnesses, 
given through an interpreter, was controlled by Cinquez. 



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In all the trial thus far the answers were directed by him 
His signs and signals, unobserved by the spectators, the 
court and keenest lawyers on the continent, had dictated 
and governed the testimony and were unhesitatingly obeyed. 
This remarkable man, gifted with natural endowments that 
gave him ascendency over his race and tribe, was in the 
whole field of artifice and stratagem superioi to his com- 
peers of almost any race or nation. The decision of the 
court denied salvage to all claimants, directed the delivery 
of the Africans to the President of the United States. On 
appeal from this decision of Judge Judson, John Quincy 
Adams argued for the Africans, before the Supreme Court 
of the United States, that they, on the high seas, uncon- 
trolled by any law but that of Nature and of Nations, had 
a right to fight their way to liberty, and that even the 
President had no right to control them ; that they must be 
set at liberty. And the decision of our highest tribunal 
was in accordance with his argument. 

That a United States Avar vessel was off the harbor of 
New Haven at the time of the decision, and apparently 
ready to execute it, I know. It was said the Abolitionists, 
anticipating a decision of the court subservient to the then 
domination of the slave powc3r, had papers prepared for an 
appeal, and thwarted the scheme of the Administration to 
control the Africans and deliver them possibly to the mas- 
ter, or government of Spain. They were, chiefly through 
the . efforts of the Abolitionists, returned to Africa, where, 
according to later reports, they were not improved by their 
experience in so called Christian lands. It was said Ciii- 
quez became re-instated as chief, and was an ally of the 
slave traders. 



CHAPTER XI. 



Three Beechers in one day, p. 162. John Howard Payne, p. 
76*7. Miss Cornelia Huntington, p, 110. General Train- 
ing, 2^. 172. The Whale Chase, p. 114. 

THREE BEECHERS IN ONE DAY. 

Ill August, 1843, Lymau Beecher, D. D., formerly minis- 
ter in East-Hampton from 1798 to 1811, visited there with 
his sons Edward and William, who were born there, as was 
Catherine E., his daughter. 

On the Sabbath of August 27th the three preached in 
the old historic church built in East-Hampton in 1717. 
Edward preached in the morning, his father in the after- 
noon and William in the evening. Forty-five a ears had 
o-one bv since the father first came to minister there, and 
a generation had passed since he had remov.'d. 

Tradition and story had treasured and reiterated events 
that occurred, sayings he had uttered, traits of character he 
exhibited, gifts that he possessed, during his early career. 
It was said he was so small an infant that he was put in a 
silver tai.kard, and the top shut down over his head. That 
he was an enthusiastic lover of fishing, which was confirmed 
by his fishing then at Alewive Brook for perch, and giving 
especial care and watchful attention to cooking the catch. 
It was said he was fond of himting, and an ardent pursuer 
of game. Stories were told of his fishing and hunting with 
a company, who secured, as a guide, an Indian expert in the 
then great wilderness of the west, who at first doubted his 
ability to undergo the toil and hardship of the expedition, 
but as day after day he exhibited increasing elasticity and 



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power of endurance, extorted from the guide the admiring 
exclatiaation, "This little old man all Indian." 

John Edwards told me that when a boy he caught a ht 
of perch in Wainscott pond, stringing them the largest first 
on a forked stick. Beecher and Dr. Abel Huntington had 
been unsuccessful, getting nothing there. Beecher said to 
John : "Boy, how do you sell your fish ?" Ans. : "A shil- 
ling a dozen if you pick them, and sixpence if you take 
them as they come." Beecher deliberately took the stick, 
counted twelve of the largest, beginning at the bottom, cut 
them off and handed the remainder to John, with a six 
pence, saying, "Boy, I'll take a dozen as they come.'' The 
narrator said, "Huntington looking on with astonishment, 
exclaimed, 'Lyman, that's a Yankee trick.' " All knew, not 
the saving of money, but th.e triumph in wit, Avas the mark 
aimed at by Beecher. How he caught sharks in the ocean ; 
how on a time he tied the line to his body and a large 
shark took him down in the water so that the 'fishermen 
rescued him from drowning ; how after that he tied the 
line to the whiffletree, and when he had a shark bite, made 
his horse haul the shark on the shore ; how Beecher could 
sing with sweet and charming voice ; how he could beat all 
other experts on the violin ; how nimble and agile he was 
and could outrun the boys ; how fertile in resource, liow 
keen in perception, how overcoming in argument, how elo- 
quent in discourse ; how sympathetic in heart, how simple 
in manners, how regardless of ceremony. All this from 
the lips of age to the ears of youth, made this visit the talk 
and the thought of the town. 

When that clear Sabbath afternoon came the old church 
was packed to the utmost endurable pressure. The Rev. 
Samuel R. Ely, then minister of the church, and Dr. 
Beecher with his two sons, occupied the high pulpit. The 



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introdnctorv services, invocation, reading and singing of 
hymns, the prayer before the sermon, (not h^ng) were un- 
marked b}' any noticeable impre^siveness. The afternoon 
sun shone on the marked features of the speaker when he 
rose to address the people. The full, expressive blue eye, 
the perpendicular forehead, steep as the palisades, the con- 
vex nose, the firm under jaw, the projecting under lip, all 
revealed a man who would maintain to the death "the faith 
once delivered to the saints." Without preamble he 
announced as his text Romans 5th chap., 1st verse : "There- 
fore being jiistified by faith we have peace with God 
through <:ur Lord Jesus Christ." In the course of his ser- 
mon he referred to his trial on the charge of heresy ; he 
stated that he had never preached any other doctrine of 
justification than that by faith through Jesus Christ ; he 
appealed to the older people Avho sat under his preaching 
during his ministry there, to l)ear testimony to the truth 
of his statement, tliat his doctrine then and his doctrine 
now were one and the same. That he would live and die 
in this faith. He spoke of an infidel club existing in East- 
Hampton in his early ministry, and in view of this doctrine 
of justification by faith then preached, one of the club sent 
him word he believed he had as good prosj'cct of getting 
to heaven as any of his churcli ; for when he sold w heat, 
every lime he struck the half-bushel he put a handful back 
on tiie measure. Rising to his utmost heiglit he said, "I 
sent him back word if he ever expected to get to heaven 
that way he had better save his wheat." 

The sermon was written. The preacher read from man- 
uscript until it seemed some burning thought demanded 
immediate extemporaneous delivery, when, pushing his spec- 
tacles over his forehead, with a rare spontaneous eloquence 
he expressed and illustrated the thought, again reading aijd 



W5 

then unexpectedly surprisinj^ and electrifying liis audience 
by extemporaneous speaking. It was an occasion and a 
sermon never to be forgotten. At the close of this magnif- 
icent effort — magnificent in directness, in eloquence, in sub- 
lime sincerity — exhausted and sitting down, his two sons 
took him under each arm :ind gently eased him to the seat. 
Sweetly, tenderly, they broke the suddenness of the fall, 
exhibiting their affection, their sympathy, their intelligence 
and their experience. If listming to the old man eloquent 
his hearers felt indignation towards his accusers, who could 
say it was unwarranted? The impression of that sermon 
was deep and abiding. The electric power of the sermon- 
izer attracted the attention, enlisted the ay.proval, convinced 
the reason, gained the judgment and won the affection of 
the audience. 

In the morning of this memorable day Edward Beecher 
preached from Deuteronomy 8tli chapter, 2d verse : "And 
thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God 
led thee these forty years in the wilderness to humble thee 
and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, wheth- 
er thou wouldst keep his commandments or no." The 
scholarly air, the pale expanded forehead, the wealth of 
expression, the abounding flash of illustration marked him 
as the student of the family. He looked as if he could 
study all day and wake up at midnight to commence again. 
The intellectual temperament so predominated thjvt it 
seemed as if to wrestle with the deepest problems of our 
faith and being was play for him. If man could sound the 
deeps of Theology, could read the mind of God and speak 
God's thoughts and word and will to his fellowman, that 
high prerogative if in the range of human learning or hu- 
man thought must be the mission of Edward Beecher. 
The exposition of the training of a human mind, of the 



hosts of Israel from the deep debasement of soul and body 
to the light and joy and freedom of Righteousness, was a 
masterpiece of learning and eloquence. In the progress of 
his sermon the difficulty of interpreting correctly the book 
of Ecclesiastes was noticed except as viewed from the stand 
point of a man disappointed by experience of the anticipat- 
ed enjoyment of worldly pleasure and finding emptiness 
where he had anticipated satisfaction. 

Moved to the inmost being by the deliverance of these 
two, father and son, who would dare follow to say for the 
Most High what they had not said ? What weak hand 
would hold and try to sound the bugle note that their 
mighty voice had blown. 

The third meeting during the summer months was then 
held at 5 o'clock, called the "5 o'clock meeting." At that 
season a Sabbath evening meeting after sundown was un- 
known. William Beecher took his text in Isaiah, 3d chap. 
10th and lltli vs. : "Say ye to the righteous that it shall 
be well with him : for they shall eat the fruit of their do- 
ings. Woe unto the wicked ; it shall be ill with him for 
the reward of his hands shall be given him." He pictured 
the life of the righteous progressing in kiiowledge, in vir- 
tue, in grace, in joy here and hereafter, partaking of the 
tree "whose leaves are for the healing of the nations ;" an 
unending ascent to capacities of enjoyment ever rising to 
higher and still higher attainments as a law of his being 
and a consequence of his doing. This was the immoital 
life. He pictured the descending course of the wicked re- 
sulting from his own choice, his own conduct, sin heaped 
upon sin, penalty incurring still more punishment until the 
abysmal deeps of the submerged soul outmeasured the 
human conception in unsounded darkness. 

And all this by a law of our being, by the act of the trans- 



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gressor, by a series of raovemeuts in a downward career 
that disabled and were continually disabling the wrong 
doer. Thus "the reward of his hands was given him." 

The shades of evening began to fall, but the speaker 
went on and on. At times the music of the Angelic choir, 
at times the wail of the lost, now the song of the seraph, 
now the discord of the self-destroyed burst upon the ear. 

In power of imagination William Beecher was like Whit- 
field. In that gift he seemed pre-eminent. In learning ac- 
quired from books, ancient or modern, Edward surpassed 
the others. In the harmony of well balanced power, in the 
endowment of strong common sense, in the quick intuition 
that caught the points of relation and dependence of thought 
and winnowed the chaff from the wheat, the father excelled. 
Looking back through the mists of more than half a cent- 
ury, it now seems as if each c>ne selected the subject where- 
in he excelled, and that his power to impress others re- 
sulted largely from the accuracy and wisdom of such choice. 

JOHN HOWARD PAYNE. 

The author of "Sweet Home" is entitled to remembrance. 
He often visited relatives and friends in East-Hampton. I 
can see him now as I saw him then ; short, some five feet 
and a half high, compactly built, well set, active, sprightly, 
of st^nguine, nervous temperament, blue eyed, fair and florid 
in coimtenance, nose large with Romanic curve, hair dark, 
forehead high and white, features strongly marked but mo- 
bile, expression iutellectiial, rapid in conception and 
thought, elastic in step, imitative in capacity, in penetra- 
tion far-seeing, a reader of human nature, genial, impulsive, 
sympathetic, humorous, kind-hearted, social, in some prac- 
tical affairs a child, in the world of imagination a genius, 
in the sphere of wit and humor exhaustless, missing no 
mark for the first, no twinkle of light for the last. 



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His mot]ier was sister of Samuel Isaacs, of East-Hamp- 
tou, whom in person he resembled, and where he, his sis- 
ters and his aunt Esther, (his mother's sister) often visited. 
His father, William Payne, was for many years a teacher 
in Clinton Academy, and probably while so engaged formed 
the acquaintance which resulted in h s marriage. 

The proprietors of the Academy voted December 28th, 
1784, "that Mr. Jabez Peck be elected master of the classic 
school and Mr. William Payne master of the English and 
writing school." In Thompson's History of Long Island 
John Howard Payne is mentioned as '-familiarly known in 
early life as the American Eoscius and since as a disting- 
uished writer, author of the tragedy of 'Brutus' and other 
dramatic compositions of high merit." I think Payne was 
a precocious genius in youth, intellectually above his co- 
temporaries, higher than in after life. If so it would ac- 
count for the laudatory notice of his early writings, which 
have failed to live in the after ages, while his song of home 
has survived and echoed wherever the sweets of social life 
are known or harmony is heard. 

John Howard Payne was born June 9th, 1792 and died 
in Tunis April 12th, 1852. About the year 1839 he con- 
tributed to the Democratic Revieiv or National Magazine, a 
characteristic account of East-Hampton, which was repub- 
lished in the Sag-Harbor Corrector of March 10th, 1838. 
The rustic manners of its social, religious and business life 
its fishing and whaling, were facetiously described, not al- 
together to the acceptance of the good people of the town. 
The pleasantry and humor of the portrayal of the character 
of the old town was thought to be beneath its merits. Col. 
Hunt commented editorially upon it in the Corrector of that 
date. The Republican Watclnnan of March 17th, 1838, con- 
tained a. criticism of it signed "An Auld Acquaintance." 



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For the time being the people of East-Hampton regarded 
Payne's account of their manners, ways and habits as so far 
exaggerated as to subject them to the undeserved ridicule 
if not derision, of the world. As time passed their resent- 
ment faded away. With the welcome the nations gave to 
his immortal song, the approving voice of East-Hampton 
joined. His renown impelled Boston and New-York and 
East-Hampton to claim the honor of being his birthplace. 
I should delight to advocate the claims of East-Hampton ; 
but the historian who worships at an altar lower than 
Truth dishonors his cause and himself. John Howard 
Payne was probably born in New-York city, as appears by 
the letter following : 

St. Matthew's Kectory, 
Bedford, N. Y., Aug. 15, 1895. 
H. P. Hedges, Deab Sir : 

As you write to me for authentic information about the 
date and place of birth of John Howard Payne, I will make 
the following statement : My wife, Eloise E., was the niece 
of John H. Payne, and had in her possession all the papers 
relating to the Payne family. She died in 1892. In 1875 
Mr. Harrison, of Brooklyn, wrote a biography of J. H. 
Payne, and had frequent interviews with Mrs. Luquer, in 
regard to date, and facts connected with his life. In 1884 
Mr, Brainard, of "Washington, wrote another memoir, which 
was dedicated to W. "W. Corcoran of that city. Before 
publication this had been submitted to Mrs. Luquer, for 
inspection and correction. This later publication was con- 
sidered by her, in all its statements, to be entirely reliable. 
In both these biographies it is asserted that John H. Payne 
was born in the cit}^ of New-York, June 9th, 1791. 

In support of this statement I find among my wife's pa- 
pers a momorandum, signed : "A true statement, attest, 
Wm. Osb. Payne," giving June 9th, 1791, .as the birth of 
the poet ; and also in another genealogical table, apparent- 
ly in the same handwriting, giving New-York city as hig 



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birth place. I find also a "History of the Family," dated 
March 16, 1861, and written by Mrs. Luqner's aunt, Mrs. 
Lucy Osborne, John H. Payne's sister-in-law. In this the 
writer says : "My father and mother took with them (from 
East-Hampton) to New-York five children, my brother Wil- 
liam the only son." 

The statement in Brainard's life of the poet, that "he 
was born at No. 33 Pearl St., near corner of Bioad Street, 
(New-York city), on the 9th of Jnne, 1791," was made after 
close investigation of authentic record and family tradition, 
and should be considered a settled fact of his-tory. 

Yours Truly, 

Lea Luquer. 
miss cornelia huntington. 

Miss Cornelia Hantington, daughter of Abel Huntington 
and Frances Lee his wife, was born in East-Hampton, 
June 24th, 1803, and died there Aprd 15th, 1890. De- 
scended from that famous Connecticut family of Hunting- 
tons who shone in the sphere of statesmanship, finance, 
jurisprudence, and all the professions of scholarship and 
learning, she early gave tokens of a brilliant ir.tellect. 
In her youth the atmosphere of East-Hampton sparkled 
with learning and genius. Clinton Academy then fiourisiied 
as an educational institution inferior to none in the land. 
Lyman Beecher filled the pulpit ; Senators, Congressmen, 
Assemblymen and Judges were neiglbors and friends. 
Other stars shone in the hemisphere of her childhood and 
youth. Her father was endowed with great- mental power. 
He was in the State Senate, in Congress, and a life-long 
skilful medical practitioner. In this social constellation 
no light flashed more conspicuous in surprising wit, more 
penetrating with the intuitions of genius, more profound 
in the depths of sentiment, more varied in creations of the 
ideal, than that of the scliool girl, Cornelia Huntington ; 
out-reaching, out-shining, out-witting all competitors. She 



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mastered the elements of education with a celerity and ea*e 
that seemed, <iven in the classic halls of Clinton Academy 
where she was instructed, a marvel. Her modesty forbid 
the collection and publication of her poems until after her 
body was laid in the burial ground which her own lines 
had consecrated and hallowed. 

In 1891, her nephew, Abel Huntington, M. D., of Brook- 
lyn, N. Y., collected and published her poems, including 
the lines on the title page of tJiis book, and the odes com- 
posed for the celebr.ition of the 200th anniversary of the 
settlement of the town of East-Hampton. 

In 1857 was published her romance entitled "Sea Spray." 
The house wherein she lived and died was the residence of 
Capt. Thos. Wickham, a member of the Colonial Congress 
and a commander of a Privateer out of Stonington, Ct., in 
the Revolution. Probably the assumed name "Martha 
Wickham" of the writer was thereby suggested. Mrs. Mary 
D. Rockwell, who obtained the copywright of the book, was 
a friend of Miss Cornelia Huntington, and the publication 
thereof resulted from her friendship and abounding activi- 
ty. The scene and all the characters are located in East- 
Hampton, except as otherwise indicated : 

Lena Hesselton, p. 11, is Cornelia Huntington. 

Alice Hesselton, p. 11, is Abby, her sister. 

Col. Hesselton, p. 14, is Dr. Abel Huntington, their father. 

Milly, p. 11, is Mehetable Hedges. 

Drury, p. 13, is Monfcauk squaw servant of Dr. Huntington. 

Capt. Hull, -p. 17, is Capt. Ezekiel Howes. 

Capt. Melton, p. 18, is Capt. Jeremiah Mulford. 

Capt. Hardy, p. 18, is Capt. George Hand. 

Mr. Alden, p. 19, is Jlev. Samuel R. Ely. 

Lester Bennett, pp. 25, 279 and 454, is Lester Bennett. 

Shumway, p. 28, is Hiram Sherrill. 



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Allen Hesselton, p. 29, is Abel Hinitingtou, now M. D. in 
Brooklyn, N. Y: 

Sam Grey, p. 38. is Samuel G. Mulford. 

Miss Osgood, p. 39, is Mrs. Charles Osborne. 

Mrs. Melton, p, 40, is wife of Capt. Jeremiah Mulford. 

Gosport, p. 67, is Sag-Harbor. 

Lummux, p. 72, is Ezekiel Miller. 

Mrs. Godrich, p. 89, is Miss Euth Hand, an aunt of Capt. 
George Hand. 

Thos. ^^,nd Geo. Fuller, p. 149, is Thos. and Geo. Filer. 

Chas. and Eddy Osgood, p. 153, are sons of Chas. Osborn. 

Col. Preston, p. 240, is Col. W. D. Parsons, of Fire Place. 

Sam Lister, p. 257, is Sam. Lester. 

Talkhouse, p. 295, is Indian servant of Col. W. D. Parsons. 

Caroline, p. 300, is Caroline Parsons, daughter of Am- 
brose Parsons. 

Dr. Huntington was a widower, and it is singular that 
no mention seems to be made of his wife previous to the 
solitary notice given on page 403, and none thereafter. 
So hard it is to make fiction deny facts. By the references 
to the Montauk contest and law suit I know the manuscript 
was not written until 1851, and by the election (Presiden- 
tial) not finished before 1852. See pages 162, 248, 455. 

Martin VanBuren and Miss Warner, author of the "Wide 
Wide World," visited East-Hampton about 1851 or '52 — 
page 332. All the poetry in vSea Spray" I think is origi- 
nal, and is largely or wholly included in the poems of Miss 
Cornelia Huntington, published in 1891, after her death, 
by her nephew, Abel Huntington, M. D., of Brooklyn, N. 
Y., the Allen of "Sea Spray." 

GENERAL TRAINING. 

Exercise in arms dates from the first settlement of the 
Colonies. Confronted by hostile Indians, threatened by 



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the French in the Canadas, by the Dutch in New-York, by 
the Spaniard in Florida, by pirates in every harbor and in- 
volved ill all the wars of Great Britain, military necessity 
called for practical action. The war of the Revolution and 
that of 1812 kept alive the martial spirit of the states that 
resented the Avrongs wreaked upon them by the mother 
country. Hence the training of the militia, sometimes by 
companies and thence called "Company Training," some- 
times by regiments and thence called "General Training.'* 
The inherited wrath of generations kindled in these two 
wars against Great Britain burned seventy years ago with 
an intensity now unfelt. This impelling force added to the 
attraction of training days. The notes of martial music, 
the display of banners, the vestured uniform, the n\ounted 
officers, the array of numbers, the exhibition of armor, "the 
pomp and circumstance of war" attract attention, crowds 
go to see the General Training. They luxuriate on oranges 
and peanuts and ginger snaps and molasses candy and 
boiled eggs, cider, beer and ginger pop. What a place for 
bargains and pedlars and auctions. My first sight of "Gen- 
eral Training" in the main street of East-Hampton dates 
some seventy years back. Of that training I write. Apart 
from the array of movements of the militia, so often des- 
cribed as to be a worn out theme, I then saw an auction 
and a)} auctioneer that has survived "the oblivious years," 
and seems now as he seemed then, a living wonder. New 
England is precise anl angular, unceasingly asking for a 
definition and a reason. We think of her genius as grind- 
ing out dictionaries rather than expressing impressive ut- 
terances. Bat New England is capable of concentration 
and elasticity. Her g'enius is varied. At that General 
Training she was represented by an auctioneer that excelled 
all I ever saw before or since. He was the most rapid, 



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musical, sonorous talker conceivable. He opened his 
mouth and words streamed in endless and unceasin^j vol- 
lies. Lips, features, face, hands, head, feet and body all 
moved together, all talked together, and all kept time. A 
live Yankee auctioneer unrivalled and outdone and out- 
talked never. The manufacture of wooden combs just then 
attained such excellence as to supply the market at a price 
thought to be incredibly small. He would hold up the 
wooden combs and cry "combs ! combs ! here's two dozeii 
wooden combs ; what'll you give for 'em? Ah ! sixpence ; 
sixpence happeny ; going for sixpence happeny ! Combs ! 
combs enough for the whole neighborhood ! Combs enough 
to shingle a meeting house ! All going for sixpence hap- 
peny ! Who'll give any more ?" Perhaps the next thing 
offered would be suspenders, and the cry, "Suspenders ! 
here's suspenders ! suspenders long enough for any man, 
short enough for any girl; let out and taken in like an old 
woman's conscience ! How much will you give for this 
pair of suspenders ? Oh, dear ! If my grandfather knew I 
was selling goods at this rate he would get down on his 
knees and cry like a child !" 

THE WHALE CHASE. 

"The chronicles of East-Hampton," with rare fidelity, re- 
cord the events, the occupation, the manners and modes of 
thought connected with the history of our forefathers, not 
omitting the whale chase. Published by the New-York 
State Historical Society, it is accessible to the antiquarian 
but not to the masses. 

Therefrom we learn that canoes were first used in off- 
shore whaling. The sharj) ends of the canoe, so well 
adapted for moving "fore and aft," may have suggested the 
like form for the whale boat, which probably soon succeed- 
ed and superceeded it. So soon that we read not of canoes 



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but of boats as used in this enterprise. Seemingly contra- 
dictory conditions are conjoined in the whale boat. It is 
of light draft yet without much drift. It sits on the smooth 
surface and rides the rough sea like a duck. It sails like 
the wind. The American whaleboat came to perfection two 
centuries ago and has yet known no superior. With the 
earliest recollections of my childhood is the wigwam that 
sheltered the whalemen at "Waiuscott, constructed of oak 
saplings sharpened and forced down in tne sand with an 
elliptical curve toward the narrow open top, free for the 
exit of smoke, tied togetlier by twigs interwoven at right 
angles with these, sapling ribs, and all thatched with rye 
straw, except the door south. The wigwam was a struc- 
ture invested with romantic charms to the eye of childhood, 
and no small c) arm of comfort and content to the more 
mature onlooker. Three score and ten years by gone this 
was the home of the whaling watch and whaling men. 
Hard by was the high stage pole — a tree twenty-five to 
thirty- five feet high — set deep in the sand. The projecting 
branches left uutrimmed some foot or more to facilitate 
climbing, and at intervals pins driven in holes bored, pro- 
jected both sides to further aid the climber. To the eyes 
of youth how grand, how lofty, seemed the "stage pole." 
The boats near by, in a sheltered nook, rested top side 
down (with all the whaling gear in) on poles which were 
laid in crutches driven in the sand. In good whale weather, 
the surf not being too rough, the watch set a signal on the 
pole that t ,.ld all far and m.-ar of good weather and warned 
the whalemen to be ready for a call. Wlien a whale was 
seen near enough to warrant the hope of catching, the watch 
waved hi . coat on the stage pole and this was "making a 
weft." If the whale came : earer, he waved the more vig- 
orously and faster. "He wefted harder." Then horns 



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blew. Then tlie frantic yell "a whale off," rent the air. 
Men ran wild to gain the beach in time. Boys shonted 
with delight. For once our little world woke up. The 
whale boats, borne on the shoulders of the crew are depos- 
ited near the incoming wave. Each oar is a-peak and each 
man opposite his oar. The experienced eye of the boat 
header watches the surf. At the favorable moment his 
word "now" is seconded by a pull all together towards the 
incoming wave, and if the .time is auspicious, into it, the 
men tumbling in and rowing on the receding wave into the 
jaws of that inexorable sea that has ingulphed so oft the 
hopes of human life. Now for the leviathan of the deep. 
"Now for a long pull" and "a strong pull" and "a pull all 
together." Now steadily the men strain at the oar. Every 
nerve, every muscle, every sinew is tauht with toil. The 
steersman's eye is searching the "sea's do ..ain." He sees 
and cries "there she blows." With one strong sweep of 
the steering oar he heads for his mighty game. His in- 
tensity is magnetism to the crew. His "pull, boys, pull," 
means something. And now he seconds their movements, 
swinging his poweiful right arm and swaying his body to 
and fro, keeping time with the sweep of their motion as if 
all were parts of one harmonious whole, he heaves at the 
leading oar and the whale boat trembles. The gliding 
boat, the hissing waters, the heaving steersman, the strain- 
ing c. ew ; these are sights and sounds and this a scene 
worthy a painter's excellence, a sculptor's skill, a poet's 
genius. The Gladiatorial conflicts of imperial and brutal 
Rome exhibit no scene more worthy of enduring- record. 
They near the whale. The steersman calls on the har- 
pooner who peaks his oar, rises, poises the harpoon and 
darts with all his concentrated power. He has fastened ; 
"starn all !" cries the Captain, and the backward movf ment 



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( f the oars sends the boat at the earliest possible moment 
from the centre of danger. The sweep of the broad flukes 
in an instant might mean destruction to the boat and all 
therein. The snrge of mighty waters, the huge p-oportions 
of the monster of the deep, the presence of a power appal- 
ing in its strength, the glistening "black ski.i" terrific to 
the eye, the conscious impotence of human power — All 
this with lightning flash quickens the imagination. Hardy 
and self-possessed is he who is not overwhelmed with fear 
and horror. In my childhood, r:.ome seventy years gone by, 
frc.m the beach banks on the borders of my father's farm, 
I saw a sight like this : Two crews in whaleboats, close in 
slure, fast to a right whale, and Capt. Jonathan Osborn, 
successful and veteran wlialeman that he was, (captain and 
chief. 'Twere vain to attempt the picture of the scene. 
Whenever a boat neared the whale, as if apprehensive of 
impending danger and conscious of a vower resistless, she 
reared in mid air her mighty flukes, shook them in tremu- 
lous wrath, struck them on the water with a shock that 
resounded and re-echoed over the breakers far from shore 
like the thunder of cannon. Time and again the crew 
pulled tho Captain near enough to dart his whale spade 
into the sinews wliere the flukes are set on the small of the 
back, as a human hand is set on V> e joint of the wrist, iji 
the hope that by cutting tlunn the whalo would be disabled. 
With unabated fur}^ hour after hour the whale fought back. 
The shock of her flukes resounded foi miles on and off the 
shore. Some stray chance made and the captain darted 
his keen two-edged lance into the vitals, in sailor words, 
"the life of the whale." And she "spouted blood," sure 
premonition of the coming end. A conflict rarely seen, 
never to be forgotten, lasting from 7 o'clock A. M. until 2 
p. M. I see them "towing" the whale to shore, the joy- 



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ful faces of the crew, the tall and stalwart form of the 
Captain, clad ia his red flannel shirt, his face and hands 
almost equally red. He looked the incarnation of the 
whale fighter that fame had reported him to be. He had 
sailed from Sag-Harbor on voyages in command of a ship 
from thence, owned by J. Feniraore Cooper, the novelist. 
His creation of "long Tom Coffin" out of Capt. Jonathan 
Osboru would be a slight dilation on the reality. Ah me ! 
no mortal eye of all the living but mine has seen the sight 
of that April morn. No ,tongue but mine remains to tell 
the tale. 

In December, 1838, in East-Hampton, there was a "weft 
for whale," "an alarm" of the boys, "a rally" of the crews, 
and two boats put off in. chase of the whale. Fearful to 
relate, they made fast. More fearful for the writer, he was 
one of the crew. Just graduated from Yale he had 
not taken his degree of A. B. in what our earnest fore- 
fathers in their records termed "whale design." Space is 
wanting to express but in briefest words the picture indel- 
ibly impressed upon my memc>ry. The skill and experience 
of Levv'is Gann, who commanded our boat, was far over- 
balanced by the inexperience of the crew who had never 
been "fast to a whale." That he was a consummate master 
of the situation all believed. ' The event justified our faith. 
'Twas he that ruhid the crew, guided their efforts, shielded 
them from danger. I see the whale side to us ; fin just un- 
der the water. I see him standing in the bow of the boat 
with the lance in his grasp. He hurls it with the force of 
an avalanche. It hisses on the water and enters the whale. 
He says in exultant cry, "that whale is dead !" Within an 
hour the whale is "turned up." A hole is cut in the under 
jaw and a line made fast from our boat, next the whale, the 



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post of honor, and extended to the other boat, and the mo- 
notonous, slow pull for towing begins. 

Hew the multitude gathers on the shore ! How impres- 
sible the young life and pranks of boyhood break out ! 
How lithe and sweet and winsome seems the form and 
charm of the mi^iden ! Admir'-ition lights up and glorifies 
the face of man and woman. The eye of age kindles at tiie 
recollection of past conflicts and gratification at the success 
achieved. Curiosity may rule, wonder may control ; the 
victim may attract the regard of the crc wd, but not to the 
exclusion of the victors. Crowned with the applause, shar- 
ing the wonder, objects of regard. Captains and crew for 
the time are invested with a halo of glory that ator es for 
past misfortune, for unmerited neglect, for unjustified scorn. 
The beheld of all beholders. If the victor in the Olympic 
games received the crown as his reward, in attestation of 
his triumph, the combatants in a mightier game and grand- 
ei contest were not unworthy the Attic crown so awarded to 
perilous achievement. One hundred ind fifty years before 
the heathen Indian might have appeared and claimed a 
piece of the fin and tail as an acceptable offering to propi- 
tiate his God. The Indian has vanished. 

Of those twelve men who in 1838 were successful in 
their "whale design," Hiram Sherrill and Edward Dayton, 
with the writer, :.nly survive. Lingering on the shores of 
time they can attest the fidelity of the writer in this narra- 
tive of the age that is past. 



CHAPTER XII. 



SAG-HARBOR. 

The Indian name of that part of Sag-Harbor within the 
bounds of the town of East-Hampton was Wequagaunuck, 
or Wiquagonock. William W. Tooker, Esq., of Sag-Har- 
b )r, a profound student of the Indian language and history, 
locates their village on the north shore, below Sleight's or 
Fort Hill, where shell heaps denote an Indian settlement. 
He says the Lidian name We-quae-adnanke, signifies the 
land or place at the foot of the hill. Since the Indian 
names of places were descriptive of local peculiarities, we 
see the fitness of this name, denoting the village at the foot 
of the hill, which probably survived long after the town of 
East-Hampton was founded by the whites. 

Tradition dates the English settlement of 8ag-Harbor 
about 1730, and locates it at first at the cliff, or north side 
of Turkey Hill, which then extended from the vicinity of 
Main street west, to near Rysam street east, and Washing- 
ton street south. On the north declviity or cliff of this 
hill, holes were dug as a refuge from the storm. The 
shelter of rnde fishermen's huts folloAved, andhoases set in 
the groun<l, one story beneath and one above, so as to be 
in front tv,o and in rear one story ; only succeeded in the 
place of huts. The attraction!-', of this locality to the In- 
dians were man}-. It abounded in game of the forest, in 
fowl of the air and clams and fish of the sea. Commerce 
and intercourse by water in canoes was easy with the tribes 
inhabiting Shelter Island, Cutchogue, Shinnecock or Mon- 
tauk. It was secluded from the whites for three or four 
score y.ars from their establishment on eastern Long Isl- 



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and, and yet not so remote as to preclude the profits of 
their trade and commerce. Southampton made North Sea 
its harbor. East-Hampton shipping made North West 
their harbor and landing. Merchant Howell, at Poxabogue, 
cut a road through the woods east whereby to cart his 
goods landed at North West. From that day to this the 
road is called "Merchant's Path." West of Conkling's 
Point a creek put in, fringed with meadow. East if Tur- 
key Hill and Meeting House Hill, from away south, a 
swamp or ravine poured its drainage across Hampton and 
down Burke street, into the meadow and creek above 
named. Sagg road was unmarked. Division street impas- 
sable, Main street unknown, and all its western line water, 
marsh or miry meadow, sweeping north around the base of 
Turkey Hill, at the cleft or cliff, where now is the livery of 
John DeCastro, and south nearly or quite to Garden street. 
After one-and a-half' centuries of excavating the west side 
of Turkey Hill and Meeting House Hill still stand uf above 
the street level. 

The hollow between Meeting House Hill and Turkey 
Hill extended south from the vicinity of Washington street 
until it met the former hill, and ran eastward into the ra- 
vine that crossed Hampton and Division streets, flowing 
its waters along Burke street into the creek. A swamp 
crossed Main street, and probably a large part or all of 
Madison street, just south of where Miss Anna L. Babcock 
now resides. A ridge crossed Main street just south of 
Garden street. This ridge and these hills have gone to fill 
the swamps and grade the streets. All the north end of 
Main street, until past David Hand's corner, is mostly 
made land over marsh and meadow from four to six feet 
deep. The ancient road from Bridge and Southampton 
ran between Otter Pond and the Cove, and skirting the 



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Cove went to the old wliarf just east of the toll house at 
the old North Haven bridge. The old Sagg road ran north 
of the intersection of Wainscot t and Sagg roads, and then 
west and south of Ottjr Pond into the one first named. 
Tlie Brick-kiln road was first used, and crossed from the 
Brick-kilns to the vicinity of Ligonee Brook, near the resi- 
dence of the late Samuel T. Hildreth, deceased. The road 
from East-Hampton to Sag -Harbor originally ran to the 
shore at Little Northwest, and then skirting the shore into 
East Water street, under the cliff, where at high tide one 
cart wheel travelled low in the water and the other high 
on the land almost to tippiug over the cart. Afterwards 
tlie road came at the bars at Eastville into the one now 
used. Main street, Madison street, Division street, and the 
two Turnpike roads to Bridge and East-Hampton, were un- 
known as highw^ays travelled by the people until long after 
the settlement of the village and the beginning of its com- 
merce. 

About 1739 both towns of East and Southampton, find- 
ing the improvement of their lands in common unsatisfac- 
tory, made extensive allotments thereof in severalty. 
Southampton ran a middle line from its east bounds, ad- 
joining East-Hampton, to Sebonac, and made therefrom a 
Great North and South Division, of almost all the territory 
then undivided within the limits named. But the North 
Division did not include any land north of Union street, 
which ran from the north-west corner of the old burying 
ground to Main street, past the house then of Braddock 
Corey and late of Jeffrey Fordham, and thence west near 
where is now the dwelling of Miss Sarah E. Fordham. 

East-Hampton, in 1739, made division of large portions 
of its territory, including all or nearly all bordering on the 
boundary line of the two towns, from shore to shore, and 



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laying out the roads svibstautially as now in being, includ- 
ing the main highway to Sag-Harbor. 

Southampton in 1740 voted to Samuel Kussell "four 
poles of land at Sagg Harbour adjoining to his meadow to 
be sold to him," showing him then a resident there, and 
owner of the meadow early allotted as of chief value Not 
until 18th November, 1745, was there made a survey and 
division of the lower part of Sag-Harbor, when seventeen 
lots and seventeen amendments thereto were divided Lot 
1 commenced "at the clift,'" was "3 poles wide at the west 
end and 4 foot at the east end." The lots ran from Main 
street east to Division street and varied in width from 24 
to 40 feet. TJie amendments were from 39 to 40 feet wide 
at the west end. Washington street is between the 5th 
and 6th amendment: Lot 1 was at or near the livery stand 
of John DeCastro. The south line of the amendments w^as 
nearly opposite the junction of Main and Madison streets, 
at David Hand's corner. November 3d, 1761, a return was 
made of a survey of a tract called the twelve acre division, 
compiising substantially all the unallotted land between 
Main and Division streets, aild nortli of Union street, as it 
then ran. Comm.enciug at David Hand's corner with lot 
No. 1, fifteen lots were laid out east of Main street and ex- 
tending to Union street. Lots 16 and 17, and som(i amend- 
ments to lots 5 and 6, were north-west of Main street. 
Mrs. Abigail Price said her father told her he remembered 
when there were but four houses in Sag-Harbor. In the 
light of these divisions of laud at so late a day we Ciin well 
believe it. Yet the divisions are of exceptional character, 
appropriate for a village, and indicating faith in the com- 
ing commercial saipremacyof the Harbor as a port of entry. 

Long Island Sound, as an avenue of travel and commerce, 
opened facilities powerfully affecting all settlements on its 



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borders and far into the interior. Transportation by water 
was far preferable to that by land and through the forest. 
The history of Sag-Harbor, or of Long Island, English or 
Aboriginal, cannot be rightly rightly read with this element 
lacking. Looking to the travels of the sainted Brainard, 
missionary to the Indians, we find him in February, 1743, 
at Lyme, Ct., crossing the Sound, landing at Oysterponds, 
on Long Island, and thence travelling to East-Hampton. 
In March he preached at Montank to the Indians. — See 
Life of Brainard, pp. 70, 72, 73. Three times he visited 
that town ; the second time in April, 1744, (ib. 112) ; the 
third time in Oct. 1745, (ib. 163.) He had strong friends 
and a large following with at least twice an escort there- 
from, with a call to settle there. At fir,-;t Brainard con- 
demned some ministers as unconverted men. An error he 
confessed in later years. Like Jonathan Edwards and 
Davenport, he condemn ed the toleration and practices of 
the half-waj'- covenant.- — See ante. p. 82. Undoubtedly he 
came in collision with minister Huntting, who advocated it. 
This explains some dark hints of dissension and church 
troubles not otherwise cleared up in the latter years of 
Huntting's ministry, and why Buell, a partial new light ad- 
vocate succeeded. In tne histoiy of Sag-Harbor the half- 
way covenant is unknown. 

Prime's history states : "Between 1760 and 1770, while 
as yet the commerce of New- York was carried on princi- 
pally by schooners and sloops, this little retired port had 
opened a small trade with the West Indies in larger craft. 
Col. -Tardiner at that time owned and employed two brigs 
in that business, while several smaller vessels were busily 
engaged in the fishing and coasting trade, At this early 
period two or three sloops cruised in the Atlantic, a few 
degrees to the <■ outh, for whales, which were then so plenty 



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that more or less of tliem were taken every year by boats 
along the whole southern coast of the Island." 

It is evident that the settlement was small anterior to 
the allotments of 1745 and 1761. Tradition, probably cor- 
rect, tells of three or four houses perched on the brow of 
Turkey Hill, supported in front by poles or pillars, as the 
first habitations of white men there. These were probably 
located just over the Southampton line, on the East-Hamp- 
ton side. As the East-Hampton territory was divided 
years before that of Southampton, in the nature of things 
it would be first settled. But before the allottment of 1739 
title would be merely a possession liable to ouster, and we 
could look for no more than temporary huts until there- 
after. "We now see why Mrs. Abigail Price, daughter of 
James Howell, said her father told her he remembered 
when there were but four houses in Sag-Harbor. The 
writer heard Elisha Osborn, deceased, state the same of his 
father. 

May 5th, 1792, the Trustees of the town of Southampton 
appointed a committee to go to Sag-Harbor and make choice 
of a place to build a wharf, but denied to the committee 
any power to charge the town therefor. April 7th, 1741, 
Nathan Fordham, Jr. and James Foster obtained from the 
same town "the liberty and privilege of building a Avharf 
and setting up a try-house at Sag-Harbor," &c. "the town 
reserving the privilege of landing their whale upon said 
wharf at all times, and they shall receive it into their try- 
house, and try said whale on reasonable terms." "In 1760 
three sloops ownel by Joseph Conkling, John Foster and 
some others, called the Goodluck, Dolphin and Success, 
cruised for whales in Lat. 30 "^ N." — See Thompson's Hist. 
of L. I. Vol I, p. 349. 

Probably the wharf referred to was located near the south 



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end and east of the old North Haven bridge, and was little 
more than a mere bulkhead. Near by this were, in the 
Revolution, three windmills, one east and two west, ac- 
cording to tradition. The East-Hampton To^vn Records, 
Vol. IV, p. 220, contain the abstract of a deed from the 
Town Trustees to petitioners named therein, of whom Wil- 
liam NicoU was one, with thirty reside nts of Southampton 
and nine of East-Hampton, in all fort}^ conveying to them 
and their heirs, &c., "full and free liberty to buikl and 
maintain a wharf at Sag-Harbor, thirty-five feet wide, be- 
ginning at Southampton east patent line, where Southamp- 
ton grant for said wharf ends, and to run north-easterly 
thirty rods, and to have sixty feet of water on each side of 
the wharf," &c. This deed, dated 12th Feb. 1770, marks 
a new era in the progress of Sag-Harbor. By its terms the 
wharf was to be finished "at or before the end of three 
years." It was probably completed before the time expired, 
because by deed dated 25th April, 1771, Thos. Foster 
Cooper sells to Daniel Fordham, victualler, half a share in 
the "new Long Wharf at Sag-Harbor." And by deed of 1st 
December, 1773, Jeremiah Hedges, physician, of East- 
Hampton, conveys to David Gelston, merchant, of South- 
ampton, one share of the great Wharf and storehouses at 
Sag-Harbor, being one fortieth part. April 21st, 1798, the 
Commissioners of Highways of the town of Southam}»ton, 
describing a highway running west from the north-east 
corner of the house of John N. Fordham, refer to the "old 
wharf" as included in the highway. September 15th, 17V6, 
it is said "wharves at Sag-Harbor crowded Avith emigrants." 
— See Onderdonk's Rev. Incidents of Suffolk Co. Thus we 
find the two wharves in being in 1776, and the old one dis- 
continued in 1798. September l-'th, 1808, the Trustees 
of th© town of East-Hampton conveyed to the people of the 



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State of New-Tork, a parcel of land covered with water 
from the end of "the Sag-Harbor wharf, extending noith- 
erlv three hundred feet," A:c.— See T. E. Yol. IV, p. 357. 
This was the grant for the "State Pier," built by an appro- 
priation from the State Treasury. The thirty rods granted 
for the long wharf in 1770, with the 300 feet granted in 
1808, made together some 48 rods. . 

The growth of the wharf measured the commerce and 
practically the growth of the port. The population in the 
town of Southampton was estimated to be from two-thirds 
to three fourths and that in East-Hampton accordingly. 
The territory of the port in East-Hampton town, as incor- 
porated, is probably over one-third part. Joseph Conk- 
ling of East-Hampton is reputed to have owned a large part 
of the East-Hampton territory in Sag-Harbor, and by some 
thought to have resided there. "Conkling's Point" is 
probably derived from his ownership thereof. His convey- 
ance to his son Edward, mariner, of about twelve acres, 
"bounded south-westerly by the highway that parts the 
two towns," in June 1775, would confirm the tradition that 
Edward was also a resident there. — See T. R. Yol. lY, p. 
234 and ib. p. 257. The reference to his "water fence," 
Sept. 3d, 1779, and to "his house" in Sept. of that year in 
the records removes all doubts thereof. This Edward is 
probably the Capt. Conkliug who in 1779 commanded the 
sloop Beaver and with other vessels took a British privateer 
brig from Sag-Harbor wharf, and again took two brigs 
from Cork via. New-York with rum, wine and 12,000 bush- 
els of oats for the troops on the east end of Long Island. — 
See Onderdonk's Eev. Incidents of Suffolk Co. p. 80. 

During the Revolution the wharf became .out of repair. 
At the Town Meeting in April, 1783, it was "voted that 
such persons who shall work in repairing the wharf at Sag 



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Harbor shall be exempt from mending the highways." 
This resolution and the petition for the wharf grant of 1770 
speak from the record of the intelligent interest of the peo- 
ple of this town to promote commerce by wharf building, 
and the petition speaks in like manner for the town of 
Southampton. If the reader regrets the space devoted to 
the wharf, let him think, there centered the business, the 
trade, the commerce of the port. Its growth marked the 
growth; its decay the decline of the village. The wharf 
was its throbbing heart. The streets were arteries whence 
its mighty pulsations sent life and activity and business to 
its stores and houses. When its palpitations ceased paral- 
ysis reigned. Heart failure is death to human life ;. wharf 
failure death to commercial life. 

East-Hampton contributed its proportion of inhabitants 
to Sag-Harbor from its foundation. The first rude houses 
at the cliflf were near and probably a major part over the 
East-Hampton bounds. In the census of Southampton 
town m;,ide 4th July, 1776, we find these names of residents 
probably of East-Hampton origin if not from there : John 
Hudson. Uriah Miller, Jonathan Conkliug, Timothy Hedges, 
Wid. Eliz Hicks, Edward Conkling, Jeremiah Gardiner. It 
is not improbable that Joseph Conkling and Dr. Jeremiah 
Hidges and a Russell resided in the East Hampton part 
of Sag-Harbor, and the Jeremiah Hedges, Jr. who April 5, 
1791, obtained liberty from Town Meeting to ^'erect a house 
below the cliff at Sag-Harboi- on the common land," may 
be another resident, and perhaps John Edwards. When 
Division street in 1807 was changed so as to run east of 
the dividing line of the towns, Dai del Fordham, Hubbard 
L*tham and Henry P. Dering, whose lots were thereby 
improved, obtained land therefor of David Russel. Thus 



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the record confirms the tradition of the early settlement of 
that family in 8ag-Harbor. 

Soon after the battle of Long Island, Sag-Harbor -vras 
occupied by the British forces. A garrison was stationed 
ther( and occupied a fortification on Meeting House Hill, 
which consisted of a breastwork there, enlarged and 
strengthened by palisades, extending southerly towards the 
old burying ground. The infamous Major Cockran at one 
time commanded the garrison, whose inhumanity and cruel- 
ty were notorious. Traditions of his barbarity abounded 
in olden time, over all Eastern Long Island. Unprovoked 
;'.nd wantonly, he often cut peaceful Americans with his 
broadsword, and some were by his orders subjected to the 
indignity of the lash. Poor Russ -11 of Sag-Harbor, was 
unmercifully so tied and whipped. It was here on the 
western declivity of this hill that the first dead were bur- 
ied, including it is said some of the British garrison. In 
excavating east of Madison street and Madison Square, 
human remains have been found, the last recently, in the 
lear of the store and dwelling now owned by R. J. Power. 
It was hei-e in May, 1777, that Co]. Meigs, starting from 
Sachem's Head in whale boats, travelled by water and 
land, transporting the boats over a narrow part of Southold 
town, into Peconic bay, and leaving thein in the woods un- 
der guard near the foot of Long Beach, marched thence to 
Sag-Harbor. One division of his forces took the fort and 
captuied its garrison and its officers, who lodged at the 
house of James Howell, father of Mrs. Abigail Price, de- 
ceased, then a child, who remembered and related the oc- 
currence. Another division marched to the wharf, and al- 
though under the fire of an armed schooner of twelve guns, 
sot fire to and destroyed about one hundred tons of hay, 
ten transport vessels, mostly sloops and schooners, and one 



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armed vessel of six or eight guns, &c. In twenty-four 
hours from starting Meigs returned without the loss of a 
man, and with ninety prisoners. This was one of the most 
brilliant achievements of the war of the Revolution. John 
White, of Sagg, grandfather of the present John E. White, 
was in this expedition, and may have been its pilot and 
guide. The writer has heard the story from his own lips. 

The possession of Sag-Harbor by the British was im- 
portant. Their fleet conamanded the harbor of New-York, 
the Sound and Gardiner's Bay, wherein their men-of-war 
often lity at anchor. Sag-Harbor was a convenient centre 
for collecting supplies ; it was easy thence to distribute 
them, and the naval supremacy of Britain enabled it to take 
and hold this port at little cost. If the detachment of 
troops, at times quartered at Sagg, and in East and South- 
ampton, lived like a vampire on their blood, it is no less 
true that their presence in Sag-Harbor was more disastrous. 
It paralyzed commerce ; it cramped and discouraged indus- 
try ; it held back manufactures and enterprise ; it impov- 
erished its people ; it covered the village with distrust and 
inaction and gloom. 

On a preceding page we have referred to that order of 
the Town Meeting of East-Hampton, in 1785, which granted 
to those repairing the wharf exemption from laboring on 
the highways. This order sf)eaks volumes of the destitu- 
tion and desolation of Sag-Harbor ; so deep, so wretched 
that even the wretched pitied her. The compassion of one 
community of eastern Long Island, for the sufi'erings of 
another, is worthy of lasting remembrance, as a star of light 
in a night of darkness. It seems as if the port, after the 
Eevolution, had sunk so deep in poverty as to lose the 
power of recuperation. Doctor Gardiner and his brother, 
on the close of the war, sent the first ship (called the Hope) 



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on a whaling voyage from Sag-Harbor, commanded by Ca.pt. 
Ripley ; and about the same time a large brig on a like 
voyage. The Hope returned with only some twenty or 
thirty barrels of oil, and the brig was more unfortunate. 
In 1785 a vessel owned by Col. Benjamin Huntting and 
Stephen Howell was sent, as an experiment, ^to a more 
southern latitude, and l)y her success laid the foundation 
of a more extended commerce. Soon after the brig Lucy, 
owned by Col. Huntting and others, made the first voyage 
from this port to the coast of Brazil, and the experiment 
proving more profitable than was anticipated, was followed 
by others. 

The foregoing, on the authority of Prime, Thompson and 
the Chronicles, differs from the account in Calkins' History 
of New Loudon, on p. 640, whero it is reported that the 
Hope had 140 barrels ; that in 1785 the brig Lucy, George 
McKay, master, and the brig Amelia, Daniel Havens, mas- 
ter, fitted and sailing from Sag- Harbor, went to the Brazil 
Banks and returnerl that year, the Lucy May 15th with 360 
barrels and the Amelia June 4th with 300 barrels. Also 
there it is stated that the first vessel from Connecticut 
which sailed for whaling in southern latitudes was in 1794, 
being some nine or ten years later than the Sag-Harbor 
voyages. In the same history Ave read, p. 240. 1711, Sept. 
8th, "Skohnks sailed for Long Island," probably ScJiellin- 
ger. — See ante, p. 74. 

The death of Col. Huntting and the embargo law, aguin 
tied up the whaling enterprise. The war of 1812 followed 
with continuing hindrances. In September, 1817, the ship 
Argonaut, owned by Silas and Lewis Howell, and comman- 
ded by Eliphalet Halsey, sailed for the Pacific and returned 
therefrom in June, 1819, with l,70o barrels of sperm oil. 
This fortunate voyage was soon followed by a great expan- 



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sion of the whaling enterprise. The Custom House records 
of Sag-Harbor show these figures.* 

In 1794, 472 tons reg'd, 473 tons enr'd and licensed vessels 
" 1800, 805 " " 1,449 " 
" 1805, 1,916 " " 2,228 " 
" 1810, 1,185 " " 3,223 " 
" 1815, t808 " ''■ 2,719 " 
" 1820, 2,263 " " 3,416 " 

Luther D. Cook, deceased, prepared memoranda which 
was published in Thompson's History of Long Island, as 
follows : 

"From the statement furnished by him, it appears that 
in 1837 there were 13 arrivals and 29 departures of whaling 
ships from this port ; the number of men and boys employed 
on board of which exceeded 800. To appreciate the extra- 
ordinary progress made in this business, it is only necessa- 
ry to remark, that in 1815 there were but three ships owned 
here, yet that in 1838, the number had increased to 29, be- 
ing an addition of 26 ships in 23 years. It shows also how 
much may be accomplisiied by a spirit of enterprise, so 
characteristic of the American people, and which is nowhere 
more nobly portrayed than in this department of our navi- 
gation. It is calculated by Mr. Cook, that from 1804 to 
1837, there were 198 arrivals of whaling vessels at this 
port, producing 338,690 barrels of oil, 40,504 barrels of 
sperm and 1,596,765 pounds of bone. In 1834 and '35 
there were 17 arrivals, amounting in the aggregate to 6,361 
tons, or 318 tons to each vessel. In 1837 there were 23 
arrivals, producing 8,634 barrels of sperm, 31,784 of oil, 
and 236,757 pounds of bone. During the same year the 
departures were 29, including one from Jamesport, one 
from Cutchogue, and two from Greenport, all bound to the 
South Athmtic. In 1838 the tonnage employed was 11,700 
to which may be added 5,437 of enrolled and licensed ton- 
nage, employed in the coasting trade, making 17,137 of 
tonnage from this port. During the year ending January 

♦Vide Address of Hon. Henry A. Eeeves at Suffolk Co. Bi-Centennial. 
■fA decline caused by the war. 



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1st, 1841, there arrived in this district 19 whaliug ships, the 
contents o! Avi>ioli wero 8,479 barrels of sperm and 91,600 
of oil, of t'-:e valne of $600,000. Between the 16th of June 
and 20th of December of the same year, there sailed 15 
ships, 4 barques aud 1 briir to the South Atlantic, Indian 
Ocean, New Holland, New Zealand, Croze'. t Islands and N. 
W. coast The aAcrai;e dni'ation of voyas^es of the whalers 
that returned in 1S40, was little short of 16 months. The 
tonnag-p in 1841 was 18,945, besides two ships and two 
brios addecl during- the rear, and the quantity of produce 
6,726 barrels of sperm," 58,827 ot whale oil'and 482,110 
pounds of V:one ; the net ])roceeds of which was $868,000, 
The whole value of the fleet (48 vessels) with its outfits, 
amounts to at least $900,000, and the number of officers 
and seamen is 1,025. There are now more than 40 vessels 
engaged in this business, wJiich, with thosv from other 
parts of the district, increases the number to 50." 

"Heiiry T. Deriug, Esq., the present collector, states the 
arrivals in 1842 at 15, bringing in 24,410 barrels of (right 
whale) oil, 4,175 of sperm and 192,000 pounds of bone. 
The wli.de number of vessels low engaged in the whaling 
business from this district is 52, the registered tonnage of 
Avhich is 17,810, and the number of hands employed 1,217. 

A TABLE, 

Exhibiting at one view the extent of the wdialing commerce 
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CHATFIELUS HILL. 
On the present main road from East-Hampton to Sag- 
Harbor rises an elevation long known as "Chatfield's Hill," 
some one-and-a-half miles south thereof, and stretching 
west nearly to the line between the towns. In the division 
made June 4th, 1736, Thomas Chatfield drew the 46th lot, 
containing 236 acres, bounded northwardly by Joseph 
Conkling's lot, eastwardly by Sag-Harbor highway, south- 
wardly by the town commons, and westwardly by the line 
between the two towns. In this lot Chatfield's Hill, con- 
spicuous in itself and also in the view therefrom is located. 
It is now in the possession of the children of George B. 
Brown, deceased, whose mother was a Latham, and inherit- 
ed from her father, and he from his father. The transfer 
from the Chatfield to the Latham family is associated with 
one of the most singular and exceptional events that ever 
occurred in the tranquil and law-abiding town of East- 
Hampton. Gifted with the power of speech it could tell 
this story : Ebenezer Dayton, a merchant and pedlar, re- 
siding in Bethany, Connecticut, and travelling as such on 
Long Island and in East-Hampton before the Revolution, 
was widely known. In 1780 his store in Bethany was 
broken open and robbed of £450, in gold, silver and other 
property, by tories from Long Island, who were arrested, 
convicted, sentenced, and escaped from prison to Canada. 
After the Revolution Dayton visited East-Hampton with 
fancy goods for sale, arriving Saturday evening On Sun- 
day, although having symptoms of the measles, and against 
the advice of tlie hostess who had entertained him, he per- 
sisted in attending church service, thereby notifying the 
public of his presence by occupying a conspicuous j^eat in 
the church, and indirectly advertising his goods. News of 
his indiscretion was spread over the town on the dismissal 



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of the afternoon audience from the church, and the indig- 
nation of the j)eople was so obvious that he left in the ear- 
ly morning following. He was pursued by a few young 
men, overtaken, brought back to the village, rode on a rail 
through the street, ducked repeatedly in Town Pond, and 
subjected to other indignities before his release. Nearly 
one hundred took the measles, of whom several died. To 
this day tradition perpetuates the story of the "Dayton 
Measles." Col. Aaron Burr, then a young aspiring lawyer, 
advocated the suit of the pedlai, and under his powerful 
presej.tation the jury rendered a verdict of One Thousaud 
Dollars damages against the young men. One of them was 
a Chatfield, whose father to raise money for payment of the 
damages awarded against his son sold ''Chatfield Hill" to a 
Latham. Both Thompson and Prime record the tradition 
substantially as my mother told it. 

Popular opinion in that daj justified the young men. 
The friends of those who died from the contagion so con- 
tracted were '\ot moved by the verdict from that opinion. 
This is almost if not the only case where the supremacy of 
law has been questioned by the people of the town, from 
its settlement. 

The fortunes of the Hamptons were not remotely con- 
connected with that of Sag-Harbor. In the prosperous 
whaling daj's many ships were owned in shares, called 
"company ships," wherein the residents of the Hamptons 
were generally large and often majority owners, in numbers 
and interests. The masters and crews were furnished in 
large pioportions from the Hamptons. From them came 
the supplies of wood, of vegetables, of provisions. From 
them recruits for that vast army of mechanics, of riggers, 
of laborers, that swarmed around the wharf in summer, and 
whose strong arms moved the incoming cargoes, and refitted, 



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repaired, and stored supplies, for out-going voyagers. The 
hum of the spindle is soft and low, as becometh the manu- 
factory. The roar of human industry, hammering on Sag- 
Harbor wharf in its whaling days was like that of the 
mighty deep whereto its ships would sail. The master 
mariners from East Hampton, would fairly represent her 
share in this stupendous enterprise. Writing from mem- 
ory, at the distance of half a century, names may be omit- 
ted, yet I recall these Captains, born or resident in East- 
Hampton town : Jonathan Osborn, Sylvanus Miller, Davis 
Miller, Joshua Bennett, Lewis L. Bennett, Erastus Barnes, 
Melvin Edwards, Eli Edwards, Howell Babcock, George 
Browii, Henry Conkling, George Hand, Av ilHam Osborn, 
Edward M. Baker, William H. Hedges, Hiram Hedges, Wm. 
Mulford, Jeremiah Mulford, Davis Osborn, Hiram Osborn, 
Wickham S. Havens, Ezekiel Howes, William Howes, Wil- 
liam Lowen, Thomas Lowen, Freeman Smith, Sylvester 
Smith, James Madison Tabor, Vincent King. 

From the earliest days of the Hamptons their people 
were alive to the genial influence of commerce. Their trade 
with New England, New- York and the West Indies was al- 
most coeval with their settlement. In the grant of East- 
Hampton for the wharf, in 1770, they record this intelli- 
gent thought : "Trade and commerce are in general a ben- 
efit to mankind, and in particular to the inhabitants of this 
town." The allusion may be simply to the pecui:iary re- 
sults. The benefits were larger and grander. The com- 
merce of Sag-Harbor attracted and developed latent pow- 
ers that might have been dormant. To the enterprising it 
opened an alluring field. It enlarged the sphere of human 
activity and thought. It was a school teaching the most 
complete self-reliance, the most consummate skill, the high- 
est daring. Not a muscle of the body, not a power of the 



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mind but Avas toned to grandest achievement. It fostered 
and inspired a patriotism that dared all and gave all to de- 
fend the land of its birth. Out of the whale fighter was 
made the hero mariner. In the Colonial and Eevolutiona- 
ry wars, and in that of 1812, in every battle on the seas, 
these men certified to American valor, in letters of light 
that the world has read. Compeers of Paul Jones and De- 
catur and Commodore Porter, undtr the stars and stripes 
they gained for their country a name of undying renown. 
In the most noble and ignoble lines the commerce of Sag- 
Harbor was a blessing to the town. The characteristics of 
the people who tilled the soil were unlike tliose who sailed 
the seas ; hut the caution of the one tempered the adven- 
turous impulse of the other, as the diversity of notes tend 
to the sweetest harmony. And the commerce of the one 
was no less secure, that in part it rested upon the bed rock 
of the agriculture of the other. 



APPENDIX 



Copy of the original Indiau deed, for the Town of East-Hampton, re- 
ferred to on page 4, ante : 

Apkill the 29th, 1648. 

This present writing testifleth an agreement between the worship'll 
Theophilus Eaton, Esquire, Governoiir of the Colonj' of New Haven, 
And the worship'll Edward Hopkins, Esquire, Governor of the Colony 
Connecticut, and their asotyats on the one parte. And Poggatacut, Sa- 
chem of Munhausett, Wayandancli, Sachem Meuntacut, Momowetow, 
Sachem of Corchake, Nowedonah, Sachen of Shinecolve, and their as- 
otyates, the other Part. The said Sachems having sould unto the fore- 
said Mr. Eaton and Mr. Hopkins, with their asotyats, all the Land ly- 
inge from the bounds of the Inhabitants of Southampton, unto the 
East side of Napeak, next unto Meuntacut high Land, with the whole 
breadth from Sea to Sea, not Intrenching upon any in length or breadth, 
which the inliabitants of Southampton, have and do possess, as thny 
by lawful right shall make appeare, for and in consideration of twentie 
Coates, twentie-four looking-glasses, twentie-four hoes, twentie-four 
hatchets, twenty-four knives, One hundred muges, allready Received 
by us the forenamed Sachems, for ourselves and aisotyates; ond in con- 
sideration thereof, we doe gi^e upp unto the said Purchasers, all our 
right and Interest in the said Land, to them and their heirs forever. 

Allsoe doe bind ourselves, to secure their right fiom any claims of 
any other, whethei Indians, or other Nation whatsover, that doe, or 
may hereafter, challenge Interest tlierein. Allsoe, we, the said Sach- 
ems, have Covenanted to have Libertie, freely to fish in any or all the 
cricks and ponds, and hunt up and downe in the woods without Moles- 
tation, they giving the English Inhabitants noe Just otTence, or Injurie 
to their goods and Chattells. Likewise, they are to have the fyuns and 
tails of all such whales as shall be cast upji, to their proper right and 
desire they may bee dealt with in the other part. Allsoe, they reserve 
libertie to fish in all convenient places, for Shells to make wamputn. 
Allsoe, if the Indyans, hunting of any deare, they should chase them 
into the water, and the English should kill them, the English shall have 
the body, and the Sachem the skin. 

And in Testimony of our well performance hereof, we have set to our 
hands, the day and year above written. 

Witnesses to this, 
EiCHAKD WooDHULL, f The marke of Poggatcut, Manhausett Sachem. 
Tho. Stanton, I The marke of Wyandanch, Meantacut Sachem. 

RoEEKT Bond, I The marke of Momoweta, Corcliake Sachem. 

Job Sayke. [The marke of Nowedonah, Shinecok Sachem. 

Checkanoo, X his marke, their Interpreter. 

The assignment to the Inhabitants of East- Hampton, is as follows : 
"Wnereas, by direction from Theophilus Eaton, Es(i., and me Edv/ard 
Hopkins, a purchase was made by Thomas Stanton and others, of a 
part of the Eastern Part of Long Island, of the Indians Sachems, the 



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tinio pi'oprictdrs thereof, in tin' iiiimc oT 'riu'opliilus Eaiuii, Esq.. ufoio 
said, and myself, with our associates, as by the said ajj;reenieut, dated 
the '^',»th of Apiil. 1B4!S, may more fully appear, '.viiieh said purchase was 
paid by me. Edward Hopkins, and amounted to the Sum of Thirty 
pounds four shillings (dghti)enc;\ as may appear by a Note of Paiticu- 
lars, unier tin^ hand of 'I'homas Stanton, to whom tii(> said sum was 
paid, now (bdiveied to liobert Bond, of East-Ilanipton. This writingo 
witnesseth that I have it^ceived the foremencioned sum of Thirty 
pounds four shillings ei^ht pence, of the Inhaltitants of East-Hampton, 
and have delivered unto tiiem tl:e writings of the said purchase, and 
all the interest that thereby was jniKdiased. In witness whi'reof I have 
hereunto subsbribed, the Kith, of Aprill, lCi.')l. 

I sav r(>ceived, £ S U Pet- me, 

3,S 4 8 EDWAED HOPKINS. 

A true eo|)y ]ier nie, 

Thomas Talmage, R(H!. 

Tkial of Wyandanc'h, referred t./ on page i:!. 

January "i-'ith, lfi58. 

"Waiandanen, Sachem of Meantaijuit, Pit., hath entred an action of 
Damage against -Jeremy Daily defendant. 

'•Mr. Lion Gardiner testifieth that hee was at tiie Ilaml vvh<>n my son 
and Goodman Daily came over, and I heard that the Great Cannowwas 
coming, and I went Down to rneet them, and made a noise for them 
that were in the hcuise, to follow me, and I niett my soun and Goodman 
Daily coming up, and I asked them whie they puled not up the canow, 
and they said it was time enough, and i called them to goe to gett it 
up, and we all went, antl could do nothing, and then we went agen, and 
sh(^ was full. 

•'John Kose testifieth, that when the candw was brought into the 
South harbor, my Brother, Anthony Waters and Got)dman Daily, did 
mend the canow, by putting "2 pieces into the side of her and upon that 
account they were to have the use of her, when their time wa- out, to 
Carrie over their things. 

"Thfi verdict of the Jury— th-y liml f.)r the Pit. 10s. Damage, a,nd 
court charges. 

The Court charges is £1 is Od. 

Town Eecords, Book No. 2, ]>. (55. 

OATH OF TOWN OFFICERS. 

The Oaths of the Officers of the Town were very minute, and pointed 
out their duties. The Oatlis are generally very solemn ; sometimes 
however the forms were singular, and expressed in the extreme quaint 
style of the duy. The following was at an early period, the Oath of the 
Constable : 

"You, being chosen constable of this Court, Doe swear, by the name 
of the Great, Ever-Living (iod, that you will faithfulL put in execution 
all such warrants as shall be entrusted unto you foi- to execute, during 
this year for -.vliich you an' cho.~en, in case y.m stay among us, soe well 
as you can, ^-oe helpe you Go 1. " 

And again : — 

"At a Legall Meeting of ye freeholders and Commonalty of ye Town 
of East-Hampton, April ye lirst, 171s, C.ornelius Conlcliug was chosen 
Town Clerk, and sworn as lollowelJi ; 



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•■You. Corni'liiis roukling, Do swear that you shall safly kpsp all yp 
Books and Kecorrls delivered to you, and also tf) Reconl all Town and 
Trustees votes, until another person is chosen for that pur|iose, and 
also to ii'W'' (-oppys out of Sd. Ri^cords, ;is you may be required by yo 
'J'own or Trustees, as Town Clerk, According to ye best of your cunning, 
wit and power, ^o help you God." 

Sworn liefore jne, 

ROBERT HUDSON, Justice. 
A true Coppy per nie, 

CORNELITTS CONKLIXG, Towii Clerk. 

The Aildress drawn iij) at a General Training, in June, 1<>82, and re- 
ferred to in page 2(; suit e, is as follows : 

"To the Honorable the Gov(>rnour, under his Royal Highness the 
Duke of Yoik, The Hunibh^ addiess of the Inhabitants of the Towne of 
Piast-Hampton, upon Long Island, Bhewetli : 

"Wheras. at th(! time the Government of New-Yorke was established 
under our Soveraigne Lord the King, t)y CoUonell Richard Nicolls, and 
those Gentlemen sent in Commis^sion witii him, IFef the; Inhabitants of 
thi,s TowiKs soe well as tiie rest of the Isl-iud being rpc|uired. sent our 
messengers to atti'ud their Hono\irs, and th»'ii, both by word and writ- 
ing, wee wer(> [jromisi'd and engaged the Enjoyments of all privileges 
and liberties, which others of his Majesties Subjects doe enjoy, wiiich 
was much to our content and satisfaction : Alsoc, afterwards being re- 
quired by liiese, his Majesties Commissioners, to send up our Deputies 
to meete at Hempstead, and there the whole Island being Assembled 
in our Representatives, wee difl then and there, uppon the renewal of 
these former promises of our freedom and liberties. Grant and Compact 
with the said Colonel Nicolls, Governor under his Royall Highness, 
That wee would allow so much out of our Estates yearly, as might de- 
fray the charge of Publicke Justice amongst us, and for killing of 
wolves, itc. 

"But may it Please your Honour lo understand, that .-^ince that Time 
we are deprived and piohibited of our JJirliiright, Freedomes and Priv- 
iledgete, to which botii we and our aucestdrs were borne; Alth(.'Ugh we 
have neither foi-b'it<'d them by any misdemeanor of ours, nor have we 
at any time beene forbidden the due use and exercise of them, by com- 
mand of our Gratious King, that we(> J<now of; And as yet neither wee, 
nor the rest of his Maj(> tie's subjects uppon this Island, have been at 
at any time admitted since tluui, to enjoy a Generall and free Assembly 
of our Rt>presentatives. as others of his Majesties Subje.-ts have had 
the privili^dge of; But I.iawe.s an<l Orders have beene impos^'d uppon us 
from time to time, witliout our consent, (and thi>rein we are totally de- 
prived of a fundame ital Privih'ge of our English Nation,) together with 
the obstruction of TialTicke and Negotiation with others of his Majes- 
ties Subjects, So that wei; are become very unlike other of the King's 
Subjects in all other Coilonyes and Jurisdictions here in America, and 
cannt)t but niucli resent our grievances in this respect, and remaine 
discourageii with respect to the Settlement of oui'selves and Posteritie 
after us. Yet all this time payments and performance of what hath 
beene impi.sed uppon us, hath not betme omitted on our parts, although 
performance of our ]n-eiuised Privibiges aforesaid, have been wholly 
unperformed ; and what payments from yeare to yeare, this many years, 
liaLh been mad(> by us. Hath been made use of to other purposes than 
at lirsi they wen; granted for and iutendefl by us; Soe that wee cannot 



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but feare, if Publicke affairs, of government shall continue in this man- 
ner as they have been, but hope better, least our Freedomes should be 
turned into Bondage, and Antient Priviledges so infringed, that they 
will never arrive to our Posteritie. And wee ourselves may be justlie 
and highly culpable before his Majestie, for our Subjection to, and Sup- 
porting of such a Government, Constituted soe Contrarie to the funda- 
mental! Lawes of England ; it being a principal part of his Majestie's 
Antiente and Just Government, to rule over a free people, endowed 
with many Priviledges above others, and not over Bondmen, oppressed 
by Arbitrary Impositions and Exactions. These things Considered, we 
cannot but humbly request your Honor to weigh our condition in the 
Ballance of Equity, with seryousness, before you proceede to any Ac- 
tion of your owne, whereby to assert the proceedings of your Predeces- 
sors in Government, which wee now, with all Christian moderation doe 
eomplaine of. And for the redresse hereof, an Addresse as we under- 
stand, hath been made to his Koyall Highnesse, by a late court of As- 
size, in behalf of us and our Neighbors in this CoUoney ; Soe that we are 
not without hope your Honour hath received Directions to ease us in 
these our grievances, by the Remedies humbly represented by us, and 
petitioned for by the Inhabitants of this Island, to the last Court of As- 
size that 'did sitt att New-Yorke, to which as yet, no satisfactorie ans- 
wer hath beene made. If therefore your Honour may bee an Instru- 
ment under God, and his Majestie our Soveraigne Lord the King, to 
relieve us, and the rest of his Majestie's good subjects upon this Island 
in our grievances, and bee a meanes to helpe us to the free Enjoyment 
of our Birthright Priviledges, which the fundamental! Constitution of 
our English National Government doth invest us with (which hs we 
doubt not, will bee very pleasing to his Majestie, and all your Loyall 
Superiors,) Soe your Honour may bee assured it will firmly Engage and 
Oblige us, your humble Petitioneis, and our Posteritie after us, to have 
your Prudence and Justice in Honourable Remembrance, as the tirst 
Restorer of our freedome and priviledges, to our great Contentment. But, 
Sir, if it shall fall out otherwise, Avhieh God forbid, and wee are very 
unwilling to suppose, and that your Honour should, by reason of Coun- 
sells and Sugestious, pursue a contrary course to our humble Desires, 
soe as to continue or augment our grievances, then wee request your 
Honours Pardon and Excuse, if in our conscience to God, and in Hon- 
our and Submission to his Majestie, our most Gratlous Roveraigne, we 
prostrate our Selves, and our State and Condition, before the Throne of 
his unmatchable Justice and Clemencie, where we doubt not to find Re- 
lief and Kestaiiration, and can doe no less, in tlie nieaue time, hutResent 
our forlorne and bereaved Condition. So, Sir, as our prayers are Con- 
tinued for a happy and glorious Reighne to his Sacred Majestie the King ; 
and alsoe our prayers shall be for your Honour, that you may be a 
blessed Instrument under God, in your Wisdome, Justice and Equity over 
us : And humblie make bold to subscribe ourselves his Majesties poore, 
depressed, though Loyall Subjects and your most Humble Servants. 

The List of East-Hampton August ye 24:th, 1G75. — See page 141. 

£ S D £ S D 

Jeremiah Conklin g, 193 10 138 

Stephen Hedges, 2-13 10 [MSS destroyed.] 223 

Joshua Garlick, Sr. 104 10 4 146 6 8 

Tho. Hand, 097 3 4 338 

Wm. Mulford, 164 3 4 John Richeson, 027 10 



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Tho. Edwards, Oil] '^ 4 Capt. Thos. Talmag, 

Mr. Tho. Chattield. '238 )V< s John Stretton, Sen. 

Thos. OsV)ono, Sen. 1()<1 10 John Stretton, Jun. 

John Cortt', 100 10 Misses Codiion, 

Wm. Mill(»r, 090 13 4- Keneck garrison, 

•Jolin Hoping, Kiy 00 Nath Bishop, 

Eobert Daitoii, -205 00 James Hand, 

riiilip Leeliie. (t43 () s James Leper, 

Hand, 11 Samuel Mulford, 

Joshua (Tailiclv, Ju. one, () Joseph Osborne, 

Eich. Slunv, H(; l:J 4 Kichard Stretton, 

Rich. Brooke, 142 G S Tho. Diament. 

Wm. Fithian, I.SO 3 4 Ebenezer Leek, 

Samuel Parsons, 085 JSatha Domony, 

Arthur CJroasy, (t48 Samuel Brooke, 

Tho. Osbome, Ju. 17.") Wm P(>rkins. 

John Parsons, V2i\ (I Joliii Miller Junior. 

Abiahaui HfUike, 033 10 Jolm Osborne, 

Joliu Miller, 103 Enoch lithian. 

James Bird, 02S Bejua Conukling, 

John Thellei-, 173 3 4 John lield. 

Benjamin Osborne, 0(17 -loahnali Hodges, 

'iho. dimcnt. Jun. (130 0(1 Tho. Chaltield, 

Edward OlS 00 

The Total Sum, (•.842 IG 8 
Note by H. P. Hedges. — John Mulford and Thomas Baker were 
wealthy land holders, and among the first settlers of East- Hampton, 
whose names should occur and probablj' aie omitted in the above list, 
also the names of Schellenger and Capt. Thos. Wheeler may be mis- 
sing. All these four occur in the list of l(i83. 

SEPTEMBER Ye 8th, 1683.— THE E'^TIMATE OF EAST-HAMPTON, 



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Enockflthian, 1 6 1 i 2 2 3 2 10 072 Ifi 8 

John osborn, 3 13 2 11 lU 8 8 2 1 2 21 251 

James Hand, 1 6 2 2 4 2 10 10 2 9 081 

Rich. Brook, 2 15 2 5 3 3 1 1 1 12 120 

Mr. Sckelliiiger 3 16 6 7 2 2 6 5 1 54 246 GO 

Benja. Coukliui? i 12 5 3 6 4 2 1 3 1 5 17 148 13 4 

John Millor se, 1 13 4 4 4 4 4 1 1 1 28 140 13 4 

Arthur Cresy, 1 2 2 31100012 7 053 68 

Ben. Osborne. 2 20 4 4 2 9 4 1 1 3 10 162 16 8 

Wm. Edwaids, 1 24 3 5 8 5 5 2 10 18 180 

Joseph Osborne, 1 6 3 113 1 6 082 

John Squire, 1 6 2 4 01220000 085 10 

John Edwards, 1 13 2 4 4 2 3 2 10 3 123 10 

Ebene Lecke, 1 2 2 12 110 063 10 

James Loper, 1 6 2 2 2 8 062 13 4 

Wm. Perkins, 1 13 6 5 8 7 8 4 q 'J ^ 37 213 16 8 

Stephen Hand, 2 13 4 5 4 5 4 2 2 48 174 10 

Tho. diment, 1 60 2 2 4410003 9 076 00 

John Miller, Ju 1 6 2 3 3 2 2 2 4 15 104 

Jere. Miller, 1 3 2 2 2 3 12 2 5 087 13 4 

Edward Jones, 1 3 3 10 2 10 055 

James Bird, 1 30 2 10010000 2 047 13 4 

John tetretton, 3 30 5 8 7 7 7 3 1 4 37 270 6 8 

John Stretton, J u. 1 10 2 5 5 5 6 2 1 4 35 154 3 4 

Joseph Strettou, 1 00 6 37310001 15 100 00 

Samuell Mullord, 1 20 2 6 3 4 4 2 1 1 3 15 148 

John Hoping, 1 23 2 6 7 11 6 3 1 1 5 23 209 3 4 

J.diu Feild, 1 2 2 10 2 6 052 

Stephen Hedges' 1 20 6 12 13 14 5 5 5 23 301 3 4 

Anthony Kelley, 1 00 00010000 030 

Oiieur Nons, 1 1 1 023 6 8 

Edward Hare, 1 2 042 

Widow Shaw, 2 2 2 2 11 1 6 073 

Eicliard Shaw, 18 1 2 3 11 081 6 

Tho. Stretton, 1 60 3 11130010 086 00 

Wm. Hambleton, 1 2 10 042 

Samuell Sherry, 1 7 2 4 2 3 3 10 102 6 8 

John Cerle, 1 7 2 6 1 4 3 2 6 12 119 10 

John Mulford, 2 20 8 10 10 8 7 2 1 8 58 283 16 8 

Thomas Chatheld, 2 21 7 9 7 7 8 10 6 44 234 3 4 

Nath. Baker, Ju. 1 4 2 4 1 3 3 3 1 12 118 

Robert Daiton, 2 26 4 7 6 7 6 6 14 32 261 3 4 

Nath Bushup, 2 13 4 7 4 5 3 3 2 30 189 8 

Ricii. Stretton, 1 6 3 12 4 10 10 4 070 6 8 

Tho. Hand, 1 8 4 5 2 2 2 2 12 16 121 6 8 

John BnK)k. 116 3 2 3310004 6 87 00 

Tho. Bee, 1 3 2 10 2 3 4 81 

Wm. Miller, 1 8 2 4 4 5 6 2 2 2 7 17 148 3 4 

georg Miller, 1 1 3 3 110 56 

BewJiek Osborne, 30 

John Mitchell, 30 

Tho. Chatheld, Ju 30 

Jacob Daiton, -^U 

The Totall is 9075 6 8 
Endorsed, East hamptons Estemations, 1683. 



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COPY DEED OF 1660.— See ante page 90. 
This Indenture, made the first day of August, in the year of our Lord 
One thousand Six hundred and Sixtio, between the Old Sachem Squa, 
late wife of Wiandance, Deceased, and her son Wiancombone. Pogan- 
tone, Cheljanow, Massaquet, Powhe and Gentleman, the true and law- 
full proprietors of the neck of Land Commonly Itnown by the name of 
Meantauquet, on the Eastern end of Long Island, the one partie, and 
Mr. Thomas Balier, Mr. Eobert Bond, Mr. Thomas James, Mr. Lion 
Gardiner, "Mr. John Mulford, John Hand and Benjamin Price, of the 
Plantation of Easthampton, on the Island aforesaid, the other partie, 
Witnesseth, that the abovenamed Sachem Squa, together with her Son 
Wiancombone, Pogatone, Chekanow, Massaqut, Powhe and gentleman, 
together with their associates, do by these f-resents, fully Confirm, hold 
good, and firmly maintain and avouch the former contract or bargain, 
made between the aforesaid Wiandance and his associates, the one 
partie, and the Inhabitants of the aforesaid Easthampton, the other 
partie, and do by these presents acknowledge to have fully and firmly 
sold. Aliened, enfeoffed and Confirmed, and allso do by these presents, 
fully, firmly, and absolutely give, grant, aliene, enfeoff. Sell and Con- 
firm, unto the aforesaid Thomas Baker, Robert Bond, Thomas James, 
Lion Gardiner, John Mulfoid, John Hand, and Benjamin Price, togeth- 
er with their associates, all the aforesaid neck of Land, called Meanta- 
quit, with all and Every part and parcel thereof, from sea to sea, from 
the utmost end of the Island, Eastwai-d to the sea side, unto the Other 
End of the said Land, westward adjoining to the bounds of East-Hamp- 
ton aforesaid, with all and Singular its rights, priviledges, members, 
Jurisdi.^tions, immunities, and appurtenances whatsoever, with Mead- 
ow, Wood, Stone, Cricks, ponds, with whatsoever doth, or may grow 
upon or issue from the same, with all profits and Commodities by Sea 
or Land unto the aforesaid Inhabitants of East-Hampton, their heirs 
and assigns forever, to have and to hold, and from time to time forever 
peaceably to enjoy the same, without Disturbance or Molestation from 
the aforesaid proprietors or their Associates, or any of their heirs or 
Assigns, or any other by their means. Consent, or procuremeat, for the 
Consideration of One Huu<hed Pounds Sterling, to be well and truly 
paid in manner as followeth, viz : that the aforesaid Thomas Baker, 
Robert Bond, Thomas James, Lion Gardiner, John Mulford, John Hand, 
and Benjamin Price, and their Associates, the Inhabitants of East- 
hampton, do well and truly and duely pay unto the aforenamed In ians 
their heirs or assigns, the full and Just Sum of ten pounds Sterling ev- 
ery Year, either in Indian Corn, or else in good Wampumpeauge, at five 
a penny, until the end of ten Years be Expired, and afterwards to be 
wholly and fully freed from any further or future demand or demands 
forever; and furthci-more, we. the aforesaid owners and preprietors of 
the aforesaid Land, for the full Confirmation of all and Every of the 
premises. Do acknowledge to have given peaceable and quiate posses 
sion of the Land aforesaid, to the aforesaid purchasers, and in token 
hereof, have diyed up a piece of said land and delivered it as our act 
and Deed, into the hands of the inhabitants of Easthampton : and also 
do acknowledge to have Received the full Sum of ten bushels of Indian 
Corn, in part of payment of the first ten pounds; and iu Witness of all 



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and every of tho Premises, we have Each Partie set too our bauds and 
seals, the day and year first above written. 

The Corn to be paid at 4s. a bushel. 

Signed by the niarke under seal, of Wiancombone, Sachem S<^)Ita, 
and others. Parties of the first part. 

Sealed and Dolivert>d in presence of us Richard Shaw. 

The mark of John. 



COPY DEED OF IGGl.— See ante page W. , 
Be it kuowne unto all men by these presents, that I, tne Sunk S(|ua 
of Meantuck, wife of Wiandanch, of late years Deceased, and ilso I 
Wionkombone. Sonne of the foresaid Deceased partie. Saclum of Long 
Island, together with Pokkatonn, Chief Counsellor, and the rest of our 
trusty Counsellors and associates, send greeting. Know ye. that 
Whereas there was a full and tirni Indenture made betwetui Mr. Tliom- 
as Baker. Mr. Robert Bond. Mr. Tliomas James, Mr. Lion (Vaidiuer, 
Mr. John Mulford, John Hand, Benjamin Price, Together with their as- 
sociates, the Inhabitants of Easthampton upon Long Island, ye one 
partie, and I Sunk Squa, and also me Wionkombone, with the full Con- 
sent of my Counsellors and Servants, as also of my two Guardians, left 
by my deceased Father, viz : Mr. Lion Gardiner of Easthamjjton, and 
Mr. David Gardiner, of ye Isle of wight, ye other partie, in yt^ yeere of 
or Lord One Thousand Six Hundred Sixtie, upon ye sixt day of August, 
whereby we ilid fuUj' and lirndy sell unto the said parties, our neck of 
land called Mt)ntaukut, from sea to sea, from ye utmost end of that 
neck Eastward Calle<l wompenanit, to our utmost bounds westward. 
Called Napeake. with all priviledges and appurtenances belonging to 
the same, upon Condition there and then specified in that foresaid In- 
denture, and a Countcrbond, bearing ye same Datt\ signed and sealed 
to us by ye foresaid parties. Inhabitants of Easf^-Hampton, by virtue 
of which Counterbond we had free libertie granteil if wei' see (;ause to 
sit down again upon ye said Land, this being the full purpose of us 
the Sunk Squa, of Wionkombone, Sachem, together with our associates 
in Convenient time to sit down to live at ye said Montaukut : know yee 
allsoe, that whereas of late years, there hawing beene sor(> Distress 
and Calamities befallen us by reason of ye Cruel opposition and Vio- 
lence of or most Deadly Enemies Ninnici'aft, Sachem of Narhiggansct, 
whose Cruelty hath proceeded so farr as to take away ye lives of many 
of or Deare friends and relations, soe that we were forced to Hie from 
ye said Montouquit for shelter to our beloved friends and neighbors of 
Easthampton, whom wee found to be friendly in our distress, and whom 
wee must ever owne and acknowledge as instruments und<'r God, for 
ye preservation of or lives and ye lives of or Wives and Children to this 
Da}% and of that Land of Montakut from ye hands of or Enemies, and 
since or Coming amongst them ye relieving of us in or Extremities 
from time to time ; and now at last wee find ye said Inhabitants of East 
hampton, our Deliverers, Cordial and faithfuU in their former Cove- 
nants, leaving us freely to or own libertie to go or stay, being ready to 
perform all conditions of ye foresaid agreem't. After serious del^ate 
and deliberation, in Consideration of that love which we have and doe 
bear, unto these our trustie and beloved friends of Easthampton, upon 
our owne free and Voluntarie motion, have given and granted, and by 
these presents do give and grant and Confirme unto these our friends, 
ye Inhabitants of Easthampton, Excepting such as have Exempted 



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themselves from ye former agreement; and shall from this our gra:)t, 
all that piece or neck of Land belonging to Montakut Land, westward 
to a fresh pond in a beach on this side. Westward to that place whore 
the old Indian ffort stoode on ye other side. Eastward to ye new fort 
that is yet standing; the name of ye pond being Quanuntownnk on ye 
North and konkhonganik on ye south, together with all priviledges and 
appurtenances belonging to the foresaid land fioni south to north, To 
have and to hold ye same at free Commonage, to be ordeied and dis- 
posed of for the benefit of ye aforesaid Inhabitants of East-Eampt'-^n, 
themselves, their heirs, administrators, Executors and assigns forever ; 
to possess the same freely and quietly, without any matter of Challenge 
clayme or demand of us, ye said Sunk Sqiia and Wionkombone Sachem, 
or our associates, or of any other person or persons whatsoever, for us 
or in our name, or for our cause, means or j)rocurement. And without 
any money or other things therefor to be yielded, paid or done only for 
ye said Land, to us or our heires forever, and shall Justifie the posses- 
sion of this foresaid Land, by these said Inhabitants of Easthampton, 
against any shall Questin their propertie in the same. Know ye allso, 
yt this is not only the Deed of mee, ye Sunk Squa, and Wionkombone 
Sachem, but allso the act and Deed of all our associates and subjects, 
who have hadd formerly any propertie in ye foresaid Land they having 
manyfested their consent freely by a Voate, not one contradicting the 
same, as allsoe with ye consent of Mr. Lion Gardiner and Mr. David 
Gardiner, Whome the Deceased Father left as Overseers and Gardiaus 
of the aforesaid Wiankombone Sach-'m ; know yee allso yt for ye secur- 
ing of yt Easterne part of Montaukut Land, which ye Indians are to 
live upon, yt the Inhabitants of ye foresaid Easthampton shall from 
time to time, keep up a sufficient fence upon ye North side of ye fore- 
said pond, and the Indians are to secure ye south side of ye foresaid 
pond, from all Cattle, Dureing ye time their Corn is upon the ground. 
And then Easthampton Cattle shall have Libertie Eastward, according 
to former agreement; and that ye Indians of Montaukut shall have 
libertie if they see cause to sett their Houses upon Meantauk land. 
Westward of ye said pond, and to have firewood from time to time, on 
ye foresaid land. Know also, that whatever Connoe or Deer shall come 
a shore en ye North side, on any part of Meantauk Land, Easthampton 
Inhabitants shall not hinder ye Sachem of them. And Whereas ye de- 
ceased Sachem in his life, freely gave to Mr. Lion Gardiner and Mr. 
Thomas James what Whales should at anytime be cast upon Meantauk 
Land, as allso confirmed by me. Sunk Squa and Wionkombone Sachem 
since, and ye rest of our associates, which not being minded when for- 
mer agreement was made. I, Sunk Squa, and allso I, Wiankombone 
Sachem, together with our associates, doe freely give to ye said Lion 
Gardiner and Thomas James, to be Equally divided between them, the 
first Whale shall be cast upon Montauket, to them and their heirs or 
assigns forever, wee give ye one halfe of all such Whales as shall bo 
cast uppon Montakut land, and the othet half to be Divided by the In- 
habitants of East-Hampton forever. Know yee, allso yt as the said 
Inhabitants of Easthampton stand Engaged to us for pay for that land 
Eastward of ye foresaid pond, soe wee allso stand Engaged, neither 
Directly nor indirectly, to give, let or sell any part of that land, with- 
out consent of Easthampton. Know yee allso, yt if at any time hereaf- 
ter, if Either through sickness or warr, or any other means, it shall 
come to pass yt ye Indians belongin to Montakut be taken away, soe yq. 
it shall not bee safe for them to Continue there, that then those thr4 
survive shall have libertie to come to Easthamtrton for shelter, and be 



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there provided of land, and to have the former agreement fulfilled, and 
to remaine as flrme and sure, as though there never had been any such 
act or Deed as here is specified, and thatduringe the time of the Indians 
abode at Montakut, thej shall be careful of doing any wrong to the 
English, either by their owne persons or doggs, or any other way what- 
soever. In Witness of ye premises wee do here set to our hands. 
Dated att Easthampton, Feb. 11, Anno. Doin. KUil. 

Signed by the marks of the "Sunk SyrA,'' "WrANKOMBONE Sachem," 
and nine other Indians, in behalf of the rest. 

Sealed. Signed and Delivered iu presence of us, Edwakd C'odnek, 

Wfli^tam Millek. 

By ileed dated December I, 1G71I, reciting that they were liound 
in a bond to the commissioners of Francis Lovelace, (xovernour, fditln' 
payment of four hundred bushels of Indian Corn, which had been for- 
feited, and their Lands had likewise been mortgaged for the payment 
of the same, the amount of which was One hundred pounils, upon the 
advice of the "Woishipfull William Wells of Southold," one of said com- 
missioners, and in consideration that Mr. John Mulford. Mr. Thomas 
James, Minister, and Jeremiah Conkling, Inhabitants of East-Hamp- 
ton, had become bounden to said Commissioners for the payment of 
said Bond, the Indians gave and conveyed to them certain Lands on 
Montauk, Bounded as follows: "By us the fors'd parties, Wuchebeh- 
suck, a place by the fort pond, being a Valley Southward from the fort 
Hill to Shahchippitchage, being on ye North side ye s"d Land, midway 
between the great pond and fort pond, so on a straight line to Ohebia- 
kinnauhsuk, from thence to a swamp where the hay stacks stood, 
called Mahchongitchuge, and so through the swamji to t lie great pond, 
then straight from tlie hay stacks to the great pond, so along bj' the 
pond to a place called Manunkquiang, on furthest side the x-eeds grow- 
ing on ye South End of the great pond Eastward, and so along to the 
sea side to a place called Choppauhshapangausuek, so straight from 
thence to the South Sea." 

This Deed was signed liy "Moiisup Sa(^hem," Chekanoo, and seven 
others, including the "Sunk Squa." 

This Deed was confirmed by Governor Lovelace, by an instrument 
dated May 23d, 1G71. And the interest therein conveyed to them, was 
by Mulford. James and Conk ling, assigned to the Town of East-Hamp- 
ton "Feb. 8, 1670-1.'" 

COPY DEED OF 1687.— See ante page '.tO and ll'i. 
Suffolk. 

This Indenture made this 25th of Jvily, 1687, Witnesseth that wo Wy- 
andanch and Sasakotako, Sachems of Meantakett, with the consent of 
the Meautakett Indians, for divers good causes us thairunto moving, 
and more aspetially A vallewable Sum of Money in hand Reseived to 
the Vallew of One Hundred pounds, doe allinate, bargain and sell, and 
by theas presents Have Allinated, bargained and sold and made over, 
all our tract of Land at Meantaket bounded by part t)f the Fort Pond, 
and fort pond bay west ; the English Land South by a line Eun from the 
Fort Pond to the great pond, and soe from the south end of the great 
pond over to the South Sea, and soo to the utmost extent of the Island 
from sea to sea, bounded by the maiue otion on the South, and by the 
bay or sound on the North side. All which we have sould unto Leftent. 
John Wheler, Samwell Mulford, Thomas Osborne, Stephen Hand. 



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Stephen Hedges, Samwell parsons, John Mulford, Trustf>t!s ol" the free- 
holders and comoualtj' of the town of Easthampton, aud Benjainen Os- 
borne, employed by the trustees to them in the behalfe and for the us(> 
of themselves and these Proprietors, namely, John Hand's Widdow,- 
John Stretton, Thomas Talmag, Thomas Osborne, John Mulford, Sam- 
uel Mulford, Tho's Baker, Thomas Mulford, widow Elizabeth Baiter's 
two alotments. Samwell fithian. Samwell Broolis, Joshua Garlick, 
Kichard Shaw, Jacob Scelinger, John MiUer, sr., Nath. Bishu|)'s lott, 
William Barnes, Samwell parsons, the lot which was Burdsal's, John 
Edwards, William Edwards. Left. John Wheler. Capt. Josiah Hobart, 
Robert Dayton, Thomas Chatheld, Jeremiah Oonklint', Mr. Thomas 
James, that lott which was Georg Miller's, that lott which was Jere- 
miah Meacham lott, Stephen Hedges, Benjamin Osborii,that which was 
Thomas Osbom's lott, John Hopin, Thomas Diameni's lots, Stephen 
Hand, John Osborn, to them tbair heirs assigns aud to every of them 
their respective hairs, assigns assigns and administrators, all and every 
of the demised premises, To Have and to hold, to Injoy and poses, to 
them and their Hairs for Ever, with all priveleges and apurteuances 
thair unto belonging, without the least Lett, hindrance or molestation 
by or from us, our heix's or assigns, or any in our names ; and we doe by 
these presents, give them possession, with tnrf and twige, and Ingadg^^ 
to give them further and better security, as any larned counsel in the 
Law shall thinke meete for their security and safety, thay being at the 
charg ot writing. Aud for the trew performance here off, wee have 
hereunto sett our hands and fixed our seals, the day and year first 
above written. 

Signed by "Weyandanch'' and 17 others under seal, aud acknowl- 
edged before -'John Howell, Justis," August :W, 1687'. Attest. 

JOHN MEREDITH, 
THOMAS HAKIS. 

There are numei'ous other Deeds and agreements in relation to the 
Land of Montauk. In March, 1702-3, a linal Deed was taken from the 
Indians, by the Trustees of the Town, for the Land conveyed by the 
Deed of July 25th, 1687, aud contirming the purchase of that date, to 
the Trustees, for the use aud beneht of the proprietors, and ackuow!- 
edging the receipt of part of the purchase money therefor, from said 
Proorietors. At the same time a Lipase 'vas executed by the Trustees, 
to the Indians, vesting them with the limited enjoymeut of either of 
two fields, in themselves and their posterity. 

In 1702, Doctor John Bridges and Rip Van Dam, obtained from Lord 
Cornbury, a License to purchase of the Indians, "Vacant and unappro- 
priated lands in Suffolk County." Under that License, they obtained 
from the Montauk Indians, a Deed of that part of Montauk lying east 
of Eort Poud, and claimed title thereto. By Deed dated May :W, 1712, 
the title or claim of Van Dam was assigned by him to Saiuuid Mulfoni, 
and Mulford, by endorsement on the same, assigned it to the Trustees 
of the Town, for the use of the purchasers mentioned in a Deed made 
July 25th, 1(387, and only unto them their heirs, &e., the 23d December, 
1712. In 1720-1, Mulford confirmed his assignment of December, 1712, 
aud acknowledged that the Proprieto.'-s of Montauk, had paid hini all 
the money he had expended in procuring the assignment of Van Dam's 
claim. 



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EAST-B AMPTO^^ I'ATTENT— IHW',. 

I Sec ante, pages •2H, 110. Xc] 
Thomas Uonaan, Captain Gonerall. Govuiiior-in-Chiefe and A ice Ad- 
iiiiral of the Province of Now-Yorke and dcpendeucyes, under his 
Majesty James ye Second, by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, 
France and Ireland, King, defender of the faitli, Ac. To all to wliom 
this shall come, seudetli gnM>ting: — Wh(>reas Richard Nicholls, Esq., 
Governour General under his then lloyall Hignness, James Duke of 
York and Albany, etc. Now iiis jiresent Majesty of all liis territoryco 
in America, did by a certain writing or PattiMit. under his hand and 
seal, bearing date the P^th day of Marcli. in the l'.)th year of his late 
Majesty's Eingn, and in tiie year of our Liu'd ](;()(;, ratitl<% confirm and 
graunt unto Mr. John Midford. Justice of the Peace, Mr. Thomas Baker 
Thomas Chafeld, Jeremiah Conklin, Stepiuui Hedges, Thomas Os- 
borne, Senior, John Osborn, as Patentees for and in the behalf of them- 
selves anfl their associates, the freeholders and Inhabitants of the 
town of East-Hampton, situate, lying and being in ye East I'iding of 
Yorkshir''. upon Long Island, in the east<MTimofet part of said Island, 
and to their hei.-s, successois and assigns, all tliat tract of land which 
already hath be(ui (.r that hereafter sha'l be purchased for and on the 
felialfe of Ihe said town, whethei from the Natives Indyan Proprietors 
or others within the bounds and limits set forth and "xpres't; that is 
to say there "West bounds beginning from the East limits of the bounds 
of Southampton, as they are now laul out and staked according to 
agreement and consent; so to stietcdi East to a certain Pond," common- 
ly called the Fort Pond, which lies within the old bounds of tJie lands 
belonging to the Montauk Indyans, and from tlience to go on still East 
to the utmost extent of the Island ; on tlu^ north they are boundt^d by 
the Bay, ai;d on the South by the Si a or Maine Ocean. All which said 
tract of Land within the bounds and limits before mentioned, and all 
or any i)lantatious thereupon, from heiuteforth ar.- to belong and ap- 
pertaine to the said town, and be within the jurisdicticm thereof, to- 
gether with all Ha\'ens, llarbt)urs, Creeks, Quarries. \V 'Odlands, Mead- 
ows, Pastures. .Marslies, Waters, Lakes, liivers. Fishing. Hawking, 
Hunting and Fowling and all other Pioliis, Comiuodityes, Emoluments 
and hereditaments, to tiie said tract of land and prcmi-ses within the 
limits and bounds Aforementioned, described, bolonging.or in any Wise 
appertaining. To have axd to hold all and singular the saici lands, 
hereditaments and premises with there and every of their appurte- 
nances and of every part and parceil thereof to the said Pattentees and 
their associates, their heirs, successors and assigns, for the proper use 
and behoof of the said palantees and their as ociates, tludr heirs, suc- 
cessois and assigns forever. Moreover the said Kichard Nicholls, Esq. 
Governour as aforesaid, did thereby ralitie, connrni and graunt unto 
the said patentees and their associates their heirs successors and as- 
signs, all the priviledges belonging to a town within i his Government, 
and I hat the plact^ of heir present luil-itation shall continue fTnd re- 
taine the name of East-Hamptw;;, by which name and stile it shall be 
distinguished and known in all bargains and sab-^, decfls, records and 
writings, V.-.-'y the said pattentees and their associates, their heirs, 
successors and assigns rendering and paying such dui.yes and acknowl- 
edgements as now are or heri'after shall be constituted and established 
by ye laws of this Government, under the obedience of his KoyallHigh- 
ness, his heirs and successors as by the said writing or pattent, record- 



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ed in the Secretary's onu-o, idaliou bciu^ thereunto had uuiy more ful- 
ly appear, and whereas ther.' is part of a certain tract of land within 
the bounds and limits aforesaid, commonly called Monatak, w.hich re- 
niBins yet unpurchased fiom ilie Indyans: and whereas Samuel Mul- 
ford and Thomas James, some of the freeholders of the said town of 
East-Hampton, bv the request of the rest of the freeholders ol said 
tOAVii have made application unto me that 1 would grant liberty uiito 
the freeliolders of said town to purchase said tract of lind of the In- 
dyans, and that I he fee and inheritance th.neof may only belong unto 
the freeholders of naid Tow.;, their heirs, sucec-ssors and assigns tor- 
ever, and that I would confirme the premi;:es by pattent, under the 
Beale of the province. Now K.iow Yee, that I. the said Thomas Don- 
gan, by virtue of the powc r and authority to me derived from his most 
sacred Majestv aforesaid and in pursuance of the same, for and m con- 
sideration of "the Quitrent hereinafter reserve:!, and other good and 
lawful eonsideraticns me thereunto moveing. have granted, ratihed, 
released and confirmed, and by these presents do grant, ratihe, release 
and confirm unto Thomas .Tames, Capt. Josiah Hobart, Capt. Thomas 
Talmage. Lieut. John Wheeler, Ensigne Samuel Mulford. John Mulford, 
Thonuas Chatfield, senior, Jeremiah Conkling, Stephen Hand, Robert 
Davton, Mr. Thoiii:;s Baker and Thomas Osborne, freeholders ar.d in- 
habitants of Eiist-Hampton, hereinafter erected and made one body 
corporate and politique, and willed and determined to be called by the 
name of the Trustees of the freelu.lders and comonalty of the town of 
East-Hampton and their successors, all the aforesaid tracts and necks 
of lands within the limits and bour.ds aforerecited, together with all 
and singular the Houses, Messuages. Tenements, Buildings, Milues, 
Milndams, Fenceings. Inclosures, (lardens. Orchards, Fields, Pastures, 
Woods, Underwoods. Trees, Timber, Feedings. Common of Piisture. 
Meddows, Marshes, Swamps. Plaines. Rivers, Rivulets. Waters. Lakes, 
Brooks, Streams. Beeaches, Quarries, Mines, Miueralls, Creeks, Har- 
bours, Highways and i>asements, fishing. Hawking, Hunting and 
Fowling, (Silver and gold mines excepted,) and all other Franchises, 
Profits, Commoditves and hereditaments whatsoever, to the said 
tracts and necks of land and premises beloiiging or in any wise ap- 
pertaining or there withall us.-d, accepted, reputed or taken, to belong, 
or in any wise to ai)i)urtaine. to all intents, purposes and construc- 
tions whatsoever, as also all and singular the rent, arrearages of rents, 
issues and profits of the said tract of land and premises heretofore due 
and payable, as also I do bv these presents give and grant full power 
licence and authority unto the said Trustees of the Freeholders and 
comonaltv of the said town of Easthampton and their successors, to 
puichase'the said tract of land of the Native Indyan.-s, commoully 
called Montauk, and if it should so happen that the said Indyans should 
be unwilling to make sale of the said tract of land, commonly called 
Montauk, within the limits aforesaid, then I further will and determine 
on behalfe of his most sacred Majesty, his heirs and successors, that 
the said Trustees of the freeholders and comonalty of the town of East 
Hampton aforesaid, and their successors forever, shall at all times 
hereafter be the onlv persons capable in the law for the purchase of the 
said tract of land, commonly called M^)ntauk. and none others: to have 
and to hohl all the before recited tract of land and premises with their 
and every of theii appurtenancies unto the said Thomas James, Capt. 
Josiah Hobart, Capt. Thomas Talmage, Lieut John Wheeler, Ensigne 
Samuel Mulford. John Mulford. Thomas Chatfield, senior, Jeremiah 



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Couklin, Stephen Hand, Hobert Dayton, Mr. Thomas Baker, Thoma* 
Osborne, Trustees of the freholdere-; and comoualty of the town of 
East-Hampton, and their successors forever, to and for the severall 
and respective uses following, and to no other use, intent and purpose 
whatsoever; that is to say as for and concerning all and singular the 
severall and respective parcells of land and meadow part of the granted 
premises in any wise taken up and appropriated before the day of the 
aate hereof, unto the severall and respective pi-esent freeholders or in- 
habitants of the said town of East-Hampton, by virtue of the before 
recited deed or pattent to the only use, benefit and behoofe of the said 
respective present Frt^eholders and Inhabi':ants and their severall and 
respective heirs and assigns forever; and as for and concerning all and 
eveiy such parcell or parcells, tract or tracts of land, remainder of the 
granted premisses not yet taken up or appropriated to any particular 
person or persons by viitue of the before recited Deed or Pattent, to 
the use, benefit and behoof of such as have been purchasers thereof 
and their heirs and assigns forever, in proportion to their severall and 
respective purchases thereof, made as tenants in cornon, without' any 
let, hindrance or molestation, to be had or reserved upon pretence of 
joynt tenancy or survivorship, anything contained herein to the con- 
trary thereof in anyways notwithstanding. And as for and concerning 
that part of the aforerecited tract of land that remains as yet unpur- 
chased of the ludyans commonly called Montauk, together with all and 
singular the appurtenances thereto belonging, unto the only proper 
use, benefit ;ind behoof of the said Trustees of the freeholders and 
commonalty of the town of East-Hampton, and their successors forever 
To Bi; HOLiJL.iv of his said Majesty, his heirs and successors, in free and 
commtm soccage. according to the manour of East Greenwich, in the 
C'iiu;it\ <if KeiM. within liis Majestye's realme of England, yielding, ren- 
dering and paying therefor, yearly and every year from henceforth, un- 
to <ii;r '-Ovcraigne Loid the King, his heirs and successors, or to such 
officer or ofiicers as shall be appointed to receive the same, the summ 
of lujc Lamb, or tlie value tliereof in current money of this province, 
ii[ioii tin- Hve-and-twent;^x^th day of March, at New-York, in full of all 
rents or former reserved rents services, acknowledgements and de- 
mands whatsoever ; and further by virtue of the power and authority 
to me, the said Thomas Dongan, given as aforesaid, and in pursuance 
of the same, and for the reasons and considei-ations above recited, I 
have willed, determined, declared and granted, and by these presents 
do will, declare, determine and grant, that the said Inhabitants and 
Freeholders, the freemen of East-Hampton aforesaid, commonly called 
by the name of the freeholders and Inhabitants of the town of East- 
Hampton, or by whatever name or names they are called or named, 
and their heirs and successors, forever henceforward, are, and shall be 
one body corporate and politique in Deed and name, by the name of 
the Trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the town of East- 
Hampton, and them by the name of the Trustees of the Freeholders 
and Commonalty of the town of East-Hampton, one body Corporate and 
Politique in deed and name, I have really and fully, for his said Majes- 
ty, his heirs and successors, erected, made, ordained, constituted and 
declared by these presents, and that by the same name they have suc- 
cession forever; and that they and their successors, by ye name of the 
Trustees of the Freeholders and Comonalty of the town of East-Hamp- 
ton, be and shall be forever in future times, persons able and capable 



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in law. to have, perceive, receive and possess, not only all and singular 
the premises, but other Messuages, Lands, Tenements, Privileges, Ju- 
risdictions, Franchizes and Hereditaments of whatsoever kind or spe- 
cies they shall be. to them and their successors in office forever, or for 
the term of a year or years, or otherwise whatsoever manner it bee, 
and also goods, chattels and all other things of whatsoever name, na- 
ture, quality or species they shall bee ; and also to give, grant, release, 
aliene assigne and dispose of lands, tenements, hereditaments, and all 
and every other thing and things, act and acts, to do and execute by 
the name aforesaid ; and that by the same name of ye Trustees ot the 
Freeholders and Commonality of the town of East-Hamton, to plead 
and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defend- 
ed Thev are and mav be capable, in whatsoever place and places, and 
before whatsoever Judges and Justices or other persons or officials of 
his said Majesty, his heirs and successors, in all and all manner of ac- 
tions, plaints, suits, complaints, causes, matters and demands what- 
soevei, of what kmd, quality and species the same may be and shall be 
in manner and form as any other of his Majestye's Hedge people with- 
in this province can or are able to have, require, receive, possess, en- 
joy retaiue, give, grant, release, alien, assign and dispose, plead and 
'be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended, 
do permit or execute. And for the better enabling of the freeholders 
and Commonalty of the town of East Hampton aforesaid, in doing and 
executing all and singular the premises, I have willed, granted, deter- 
mined, and by these presents do will, grant and determine, that from 
henceforward and forever hereafter, the said trustees of the freeholders 
and commonalty of the town of East-Hampton, do and may have and 
use a common seal, which shall serve to execute the causes and affairs 
whatsoever, of them and their successors. And further I will, and by 
these presents in behalf of his said Majesty, his heirs and successors, 
that henceforward forevermore, there be and shall be Trustees of the 
freeholders and commonalty of the town of Easthampton aforesaid, to 
be chosen and elected as in these presents hereafter is mentioned, who 
shall be and shall be called the Trustees of the Freeholders and Com- 
monalty of the town of East-Hampton, and they and their successors, 
shall and may at all convenient times hereafter, upon a publique sum- 
mons to be obtained at the request of any three of the Trustees afore- 
said, from any of his Majestye's Justices of the peace of the said tiAvn, 
or, for default thereof, from any of the Justices of the County of Suffolk 
for the time being; assemble and meet together in the town house of 
the said town, or in such other publique places as shall be from time 
to time appointed, to make such acts and orders in writing, for the 
more orderly doing of the premises as they, the said Trustees of the 
Freeholders and Commonalty of the town of East-Hampton aforesaid, 
and their successors from time to time, shall and may think convenient, 
so always as the said acts and orders be in no ways repugnant to the 
laws of England and of this province, which now are, or hereafter may 
be established, and that they be not in anywise against the true intent 
and meaning of these presents. And also I will ordain and determine, 
that all and singular the aforesaid acts and orders from time to t me 
shall be made and ordered by the vote of the major part of the said 
Trustees of the freeholders and commonalty of the town of East- 
Hampton aforesaid, or at least by the major part of such of them as 
shall from time to time assemble and meet together in manner as afore- 



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•aid, »(> allways Ihfrn be not fewor in uuiiibt>r than seven of the said 
trustees present at sucli meetings, so to l>e held as aforesaid ; and for 
the better execution of this grant in this behalf, I have assigned, nom- 
inated, created, constituted and made, and by these iiresents do as- 
sign, nominate, create, constitute and make, Thomas James, Capt. Jo- 
siah Hobart, Capt. Thomas Talmage, Lieut. Jidu] Wheider, Ensigne 
Samuel Mulford, John Mulford, Thomas ChattieM. senior, Jeremiah 
Conklin, Stephen Hand, llobart Dayton, Mr. Thomas Baker, Thomas 
Osborne, to stand aud be the first Uioderne Trustees of the freeholders 
and commonalty (>f the t^own of East-Hampton, to continue in the afore- 
said office from and after the date of these presents, uutill the time 
that others be elected and choseu in thei)- stead, according to the man- 
ner and form herein after expressed. And moreover, I do by these 
presents, for and on behalf of his most sacred Majesty as aforesaid , 
his heirs and successors, appoint that the Trustees of the freeholdei's 
aud commonalty of the town of East-Hampton, Constables and Asses- 
sors within the town of East-Hampton aforesaid, be yearly chosen on 
the first Tuesday of April forever, viz. : twelve Trustees of the Free- 
holders aud commonalty of the town of East-Hampton, two Constables 
and two Assessors, in sueii publi(iue place as the Trustees for the time 
being shall appoint and direct, and that the trustees, constables aud 
assessors be chosen by the majority of voices or the freeholders and 
freemen of the town of East-Hampton afortisaid. And lastly I give and 
grant, for and on behalfe of his said Majesty, his heirs and successors, 
by these presents to all aud every peison and persons, aud to whatso- 
ever pei'son, subject to his said Majesty, his heirs and successors, free 
and lawful power, ability and authority, that they or any of them, any 
Messuages, Tenements, Lands, Meadows, Feedings. Pastures, Woods. 
Underwoods, lients, Revertions, services and oth^r hereditaments 
whatsoever, within the said county of Suffolk, wliich they hold of his 
said Majesty, his heirs and suecessoi's, unto the aforesaid TrusttM:!S of 
the freeholders and commonalty of the town of East-Hampton and 
their successors, shall and may give, grant, bargain, sell an<i alienate. 
To HAVE, HOLD and enjoy, unto the said Trustees of the freeliolders 
and commonalty of the town of East-Hampton aud their successors 
forever, yielding and paying therefor uido his said Majesty his heirs 
and successors, on the said twenty-fifth day of March, yearly and ever}' 
year forever, the full anil just sum of forty shillings, current money of 
this Province at New-Yo)'k. Wherefore by virtue of the power and au- 
thority aforesaid, I do, will aud command, for and on behalfe of his 
said Majesty, ids heirs and successors, that the aforesaid Trustees of 
the freeholders and commonalty of the town of Ea,st-Hampton aud their 
successors, have, hold, use and enjoy, aud that they shall and may for- 
ever have, and they shall hold, use aud enjoy, all the libertyes, au- 
thorityes, customs, orders, ordinances, franchizes, acquittances, lands, 
tenements and hereditaments, goods and chattels aforesaid, according 
to the teuuure and effect of these presents, without the let or hindrance 
of any person or person - whatsoever. In Testimony whereof, I have 
caused the seal of the said Province to be hereunto affixed, aud these 
px'esents to be entered in the secretary's office. Witness my hand at 
fort James the ninth day of December, On thousand six hundred eight}- 
six, aud in the second year of the reigne of said soveraigne Lord James 



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the second, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, fleferider of 
the faith, etc. 

THOMAS DONGAN. 
By his Excellencr's r-onimand, 

J. L. SWINTON. 

At a counsel! held at Fort James, in New-York, the Oth davfjf Decem- 
ber, lOHfi. Present, his Excellency, the Governour, 

MAJOR ANTHONY BROCKELS, 
ME. FllEDERICK PHILLIPS, 
MPt. STEPH. Y. COPtTLANDT, 
ME. JOHN SPEAGGE. 
MAJOE JAEYIS BAXTEE. 
This Pattent was approved of, 

J. L. SWINTON. CI. Council. 

May it please yo'r ExctiUency. The Attorney General hath perused 
this Pattent, and Andes notliing contained therein prejuditiall to his 
Majestye's interest. 

Examined December ve 0th. ]>3Hfi. 

J A. GRAHAM. 

Eecorued in the Secretary's office for the province of New-York, Lib, 
No. 2. Book of Pattents begun imc. 

J. L. SWINTON, D. Secry'r. 

East-Hampton, Town Clerk's Office, / 
August 5th. 1850. ) 

I have comi)ared the preceding Avith the original on file in this of- 
licH and do certifv the same to be a correct transcript therefrom. 

DAYTD BAKEE, Town Clerk. 

Copy fkom Joiknal of the Legisi.ative Covxcil of the Colony of 
New-Y'okk, Vol. I, page 168. 

The Sec-retary of this province produced to the board a letter direct- 
ed to him, intended a return of the high sheriff of the county of Suffolk 
of the writ to him directed for the election of Eepresentatives for the 
said County which was oidered to be entered ih the Councill book and 
follows in lift'C verba : 
SfFFOLK, Mp.. HiciH Sheriff: 

Wee the Ifreeholders of this ••ounty of Suffolk being mett together 
according to precept and linding that thi^. writts presented to us for the 
Election of other liiipresentatives therein Requii'ed do contain an In- 
fringraent of our Liberties not allowing us to chuse whom we think fit- 
test^to tru^t in that affair, and so may be a president for our further 
thralldom wherefore we cannot at present incline to any further choice 
ha\ iiig alreaiiy elr'cted for tliis As.-embly two, sufficient and Legall 
persons [in our esteeml of approved fidelity to his Majesty and who 
a,re no aliens but natural! born Englislimen and in their different capac- 
ities have served in many Assemblies [in time of wars] of greater con- 
cernment than this present .\ssembly is or can be of and have acquitted 
themsiUves as faitliful and upright both to the Kings Majesty, and to 
this province, neither is thi-^ County as : ^tt convinced of any fault that 
they have committed wliy we should reject them, on which Considera.- 
tion we acquiese iu our former choice r)f th<nn which hath beenfr«e aad 



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without Restraint upon our Liberties as Englishmen. Soe we bid you 
farewell. 

Signed (Nemine contra dicentei COUNTY OF SUFFOLK. 
October ye 8th, 1701, at Southold. 
The above mentioned is the Kesult of the County of Suffolk. 

JOHN MUi^FOED, Sher. 
Locus Sigilli. 
Oedered, that an expresse be dispatched with a sumons for John 
Mulford Esqr High Sheriff of the County of Suffolk to appear before this 
board immediately on the Eeceipt of the said sumons. 



EQUALIZATION OF THREE MONTAUK PURCHASES. 

See ante, page 112. 
B £ S D 

Isaac Barnes, 15 14 02 

Capt. Barnes, 02 10 00 

Samuel Baker, 10 00 00 

William Barnes 10 00 00 

Jonathan Baker 07 10 00 

Capt. Baker 21 13 04 

Daniel Baker 10 00 00 

Noah Barnes 10 00 00 

Thomas Cooper 01 13 04 

Capt. Conkling 26 13 08 

1 part of which is a 96 part of a 
Cornelius Couklintr, Jr., . ,08 18 OS-j share to the eastward of the 

( Fort Pond, which is 00 06 08 

David Conkling 08 00 00 

Sineus Conkliag 00 11 1^ 

I part of which is 1-12 part of 

Thomas Chatfleld, Es . . . .37 00 00 \ '^ ^f ^^f //' ^''*' .^°'''? ^^^H 

1 and all the rest eastward of 

L the great pond 02 00 

Ellas Conkling 03 06 08 

Jonathan Conkliag 13 lb 08 

f part of which is 1-28 part of 

j a share in the 9-score acre 

Tu^^^r, rn,„<^R„i,i T., a.> aa aa i purchasc 00 0.5 08 

Thomas Cliatneld, Jr . . . .02 00 00 - ' it, - . ,• . 

' 1 and 1-14 part of a share in 

I the rest eastward of tliefort 

l_ pond 1 14 03—2 00 00 

John Conkling 03 06 00 

William Conkling 02 04 05§ 

Widow Mary Conkling. . .19 13 04 

Beniaml. Co..ltag 09 00 Ooj ^ff^°i;^Sot'«i "e'r^'"" ''' 

Jeremiah Conkling 21 06 08 

I Part of which is 1-40 part of a 

o,-™^^ n^ i,ii„„ iA AA iA I share to the westward of the Fort 

Simon Conkling 10 08 10-^ , ,,, i .d .-.a .. t i 

* 'i pond 04s, and 3-20 jjarts of a share 

[eastward of said pond. 

XT„ /-I 1 1- A<? ic n/< i Pa''t of which is l part of a siiare 

Henrj Conkhng 06 15 06 j ^^^^^^^.^ ^^^ ^j^^ /J, 

John Dayton OS 00 05 



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Jeremiah Dayton OS 00 

Daniel Dayton 18 07 

Daniel Dayton, Jr 00 11 

Nathan Dayton 19 08 

Henry Dajton 13 15 

John Davis 22 10 

John Dymont 10 00 

William Edwards 05 10 

John Edwards 02 10 

David Edwards 03 06 

Daniel Edwards 03 12 

Aron Fithian 20 00 

David Fithian 06 00 

David Gardiner 45 00 

Abraham Gardiner 20 00 

Lion Gardiner 15 00 

Giles Gardiner 05 00 

Heirs of Phebe Gould, dcd 02 19 

Mr. Huntting 10 00 

Capt. Huntting 05 00 

Fxr. of Dr. Huntting's es 05 00 

Daniel Hedges 20 16 

John Hedges 13 06 

Stephen Hedges 14 08 

Samuel Hedges 13 10 

Lemuel Hedges 13 06 

Isaac Hedges 08 11 

Gideon Hedges 08 11 

Elisha Howell 10 00 

Constant Havens 05 00 

Jonathan Havens 20 00 

Jonathan Havens, Jr 05 00 

Martha Halsey 17 05 

Henry Hudson 03 12 

Joshua Hildredge 05 00 

James Hand 06 06 

Capt. Howell .^2 19 

John Huntting 07 10 



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05 
13 

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01 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
08 

07 1 

00 

00 



Part of which is 1-27 part of a 
share in hither end 5 11 1-9 



Part of which is J part of a share 



00 

00 

00 

00 

03 1-9 

00 

00 

00 



in the hither end, 20s. 



08- 
08 

00 

08 
00 
00 



Part of which is 1-16 part of a 
share in all except the nine-score 
acre purchase, 02 00 00. 



1 Part of which is 1-6 part of a share 
rin the nine score acre purchase, 
\ 1 06 08 



00-1 



f Part of which is 5-112 parts of a 
I share in the 9-scoreacre purchase 
7s 1 5-5d, and 5-56 parts of a share 
iu the North Neck, and all east- 
ward of the great pond 34Sj 10 2-7d 
in all 2 10 00. 



00 
00 
00 

08 



f Part of which is 1-6 part of a share 
) in the hither end 26s Sd, and i-12 
I part of a share in the uine score 
[acre purchase 13s 04d U2 00 00 



02§ 
00 

i Part of whicn is 1-24 part of share 
OOJ in all escepi the nine scjre acre 

( purchase, ]' (>6 08. 
03 i-9 
00 



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Mr. Hand 09 10 

William Hedges 20 00 

Thomas Hand 03 00 

William Hedges, Jr 12 10 

David Hand 07 13 

Ezekiel Jones 04 00 

Daniel Leek 10 00 

John Mulford 40 00 

Isaac Mulford 09 1(1 

Josiah Miller. . , 40 10 

Daniel Miller 08 06 

John Miller 01 13 

Timothy Miller 01 13 

Eliaser Miller 45 20 

Jeremiah Miller 10 00 

Capt. Mulford 50 05 

John Merry 08 00 

Thomas Mulford 22 16 

Elisha Mulford 01 13 

Thomas Mulford, Jr 01 13 

Widow Sarah Mulford . . .08 00 

Burnet Miller 40 08 

Ex. of Capt. Burnet 10 00 

Nathan Miller 01 18 

Ellas Mulford 26 10 

Samuel Mulford 00 11 

*ohnMitchel 15 06 

Timothy Mulford 08 00 

Christopher Mulford 08 00 

Jeremiah Mulford 27 00 

Joseph Osborne 10 00 

Jeremiah Osborne 11 13 

Thomas Osborne, Jr 11 00 

Daniel Osborne 15 11 

Thomas Osborne 06 13 

Elisha Osborne 10 00 

William Osborne . , .....03 17 



( Part of it being 1-6 part of a .^share 
00-) in all except the nine score acre 
[ purchase, 5 06 OS 



00 
00 1 
00 



Part of it being l-*4 part of a shai-e 
in all excejit the nine score acre 
purchase, 1 06 08. 



i Part of it being 1-12 part of a share 
04-' in all but the nini' score acre pur- 

( chase, 2 13 04. 
00] All in the 9-score acre purchase. 
00 

( Part of it being \ of a shan^ in all 
00-' eastward of the fort pond, 

( 8 00 00 

08 

Part of which is I part of a share 
'"( in the hither end, 1 00 00. 
08 
04 
04 

^^ \ Part of which is J- part of a share 
^^] in the hither end, 1 00 00. 
00 

\ Part of which is 1 1-3 of a share 



06 



I in the hither end, 10 13 04 



00 

00 

PIQ j Part of being | of share in the 9 

j score acre purchase, 02 00 ©0 
04 
04 

00 -{ All lying to the east of fort pond. 
04 
00 
04 

) Part of which is 3-4 of a share in 
00 rail eastward of the fort pond, 

) 24 00 00 

01^ 

08 

00 

00 -j 

00 ■] 

00 
04 
00 
08 
04 

ou 

09 i 



Part of which is 1-2 share in the 
north neck and in all to the east- 
ward of the great pond, 12 00 00 
All Ijing eastward of fort pond. 
All lyiui,' eastward of said pond. 
Part of which is 1-4 of a share on 
the south side between thi^ ponds 
02 00 



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£ S 

Seth Parsons 20 00 

John Parsons 02 10 

John Parsons the 4th ... .15 00 

Capt. Person 20 00 

Henry Peirson . 02 10 

Abraham Peirson 02 10 

David Peirson 39 13 

Josiah Peirson 10 00 

Samuel Parsoas 13 06 

Samuel Parsons, Jr 10 00 

Robert Parsons 06 13 

John Parsons ye 3d 06 13 

Widow Hannah Parsons .06 13 

Jonah Eogers . .25 09 

Jonah Rogers, Jr 12 14 

John Russell 10 00 

Recompense Sherel, Jr. . .02 10 

Thomas Sanford 08 06 

Zachariah Saut'ora 03 06 

Jacob Schellenx 20 00 

John Stratton 17 17 

Eliphalet Stratton 17 17 

Thomas Talmag»> 24 05 

Wid. Rebeckah Talmage.02 19 

John Talmage 08 18 

Mr. White 08 13 

Ebenezer White, Jr 02 10 



D 

00 

00 

00 

f Part of which is 5-112 of a share 

„„ J in the 9-scoro acre purchase - 07, 
I and 5-56 of a share in the north 
L and all east of the great pond 2— 



00 
00 

04 

00 
08 
00 
04 
04 
04 

04 

08 
00 
00 
08 
08 
00 
05 
05 

00- 

03 1 

•'! 

04 
00 



Part of which is 1-12 of a share in 
} all except in the land on the south 
I side between the ponds, 2 13 — 



( Part of which stands to Jonah 
I Rugers and his son Jonah, is a 
sixth part of a share in yo hither 
[end, £1 00 08. 



Part of which is 1-32 part of a 

share in all except the nine score 

acre purchase, £1 10 00 

-9 

Part of which is 1-32 part of a 

share in all except the nine score 

acre purchase, £1 00 00 



We whose names are hereunto subscribed at the Request of the pres- 
ent Trustees, having carefully inspected into all the rights throughout 
Meantak and all the rights that do not run throughout, and all being 
computed for right of pasture as followeth : a whole share throughout 
at forty pounds— a share in the hither end at eight pounds, a share in 
the laud between the ponds, called the nine score acre purchase, at 
eight pounds, and a share in the north neck (and all eastward of the 
land betw(^eu the ponds abovesaid) to the point of island at twenty-four 
pounds a share, and in the first colum is contained each man s whole 
right of pasturage and in the second colum is contamed what and 
where each man's right lyes which doth not run throughout and quan- 
tity thereof, as may be seen by the foregoing list, and all the rights 
standing in the list amounts to in the whole but lo67-19-01 4-.>, wlucn 
will not amount to the whole estimate of Meantauck which is lob» 



220 

pounds, so the proportion as stands to every man doth not include the 

wholo land wanting lOd and S-9 of a i)eney, errors excepted. 

This list fully completed and finished the sixth day of June annoq 

domony 174.S, by us whose names are underwritten. 

All the Right in Mnantaket to the COENELIUS COCKLING, 

eastward of the fort pond is 39 THOS. CHA.TFIELD, 

shares and 4-10, all to the west- JOHN DAVIS, 

ward of sd pond is 38 shares NATHL. BAKER, 

and 4-10. Montauk list of 1748. 

GENERAL ASSOCIATION. 
[Referred to on page 145, ante.] 

[Adopted by the Freemen, Fi-eeholders, and inhabitants of the city 
and county of New-York, on Saturday, the 29th of April, 1775, and 
transmitted for signing, to all the counties in the Province.] 

"Persuaded that the Salvation of the Rights and liberties of America, 
depends, under God, on the firm union of its inhabitants, in a vigorous 
prosecution of the measures necessary for its safety ; and convinced of 
the necessity of preventing the Anarchy and confusion, which attend the 
dissolution of the powers of Government, we, the Freemen, Freehold- 
ers and Inhabitants of being greatly alarmed at the avowed 

design of the Ministry, to raise a Revenue in America, and shocked by 
the bloody scene now acting in Massachusetts Bay, do, in the most 
Solemn manner Resolve never to become Slaves, and do associate un- 
der all the ties of Religion, honour and Love to our Country, to adopt 
and endeavor to carry into execution, whatever measures may be rec- 
ommended by the Continental Congress, or resolved upon by our Prov- 
incial Convention, for the purpose of preserving our Constitution, and 
opposing the execution of the several arbitrary and appressive acts of 
the British Parliament, until a reconciliation, between Great Britain 
and Ameiica, on Constitutional Principles, (which we most ardently de- 
sii'e) can be obtained ; and that we will in all things, follow the advice 
of our General Committee, respecting the purposes aforesaid, the pres- 
ervation of Pea<;e and Good Order, and the safety of individuals and 
private property. 

SiGNEES IN East-Hampton, Suffolk County, N. Y. 
John Chatfield, Abraham Gardiner, Burnet Miller, David Mulford, 
Thomas Wickham, Stephen Hedges, John Gardiner, Samuel Buel, John 
Hudson, Nathaniel Huntting, Eleazar Miller, Jeremiah Dayton, Thom- 
as Dibble, Noah Barnes, Lemuel Mulford, Jeremiah Gardiner, Aaron 
Isaacs, Daniel Conkling, Elisha Daviss, John Daviss, Jacob Wickham, 
William Conkling, Nathan Conkling, John F. Chatelain, Thomas Hedges, 
John Parsons, 3d, William Huntting, John Mulford, Jeremiah Bennet, 
Samuel Hunt, Selah Pike, Elias Qonkling, Abraham Mulford, Jeremiah 
Conkling, John How, Samuel Parsons, Benjamin Stratton, David Os- 
borne, Elisha Mulford, Daniel Hand, David Mulford, Matthew Mulford, 
John Miller, John Dayton, Joseph Osborn, Jr., Ebenezer Conkling, 
Henry Chatfield, John Miller, Jr., Abraham Barnes, Patrick Goold, 
David Talmadge, Seth Barnes, JasonMiller, Simon Dibble, William Mul- 
ford, Jeremiah Sherril, Gurdon Miller, Aaron Isaacs, Jr., Elisha Jones, 
Lewis Chatfield, Enos Talmadge, Thomas Jones, Huntting Miller, Sam- 
uel Strattun, Abraham Sherrill, Recompense Sherrill, John Stratton, 
Stephen Hand, John Dayton, Daniel Hedges, Jonathan Barnby, William 
Conkling, Jr., David Dayton, David Miller, Henry Hopping, Josiah Os- 



,->f. 



221 

borne, Joseph Hopping, John Stron.!?, Nathaniel Talmadge, Jeremiah 
Miller, Jr., Abraham Dimon, Isaac Dimon, Cornplius Osborne, William 
Hedges, Elisha Talmadge, George Gladden, Abraham Hand, Stephen 
Stratton, Thomas Osborne, Jeremiah Osborne, Jr., Jonathan Mulford, 
Isaac M. Huntting, James Hand, Jeremiah Talmadge, Jeremiah Miller, 
George Strong, Lewis Osborne, Joseph Osborne, William Hedges, Jr., 
Recompense Sherill, David Edwards, Ezekiel Mulford, Cornelius Payne, 
David Fithian, SamuelConkling, Thomas Baker, Isaac Van Scoy, Isaac 
Van Scoy, Jr., Nathaniel Hand, Matthew Barnes, Philetus Osborne, 
Merry Parsons, William Parsons, Henry Downiug, John Parsons, Jona- 
than Osborne, Joseph Osborne. Jeremiah Conkling, Samuel Conkling, 
John Mulford, Jonathan Tuthill, Jesse Dayton, Jacob Dayton, Jeremiah 
Parsons, Mulford Conkling, Matthew Stratton, Joseph Miller, Abraham 
Edwards, Samuel Parsons, Samuel Sherrill, Jr., Eleazar Hedges, Abra- 
ham Mulford, Jr.. Datid Loper, Nathaniel Dominy, Isaac Pain, Ben- 
jamin Parsons, Jacob Conkling, Jacob Conkling, Jr., Christ Dibble, 
Samuel Gardiner, David Leek, Abraham Leek, Samuel Dayton, Uriah 
Miller, Nathan Miller, Abraham Sehellinger, Jeremiah Conkling, Na- 
thaniel Baker, Jeremiah Conkling, Zebulon Conkling, Isaac Conkling, 
Jonathan Edwards, Abraham Loper, Philip Hedges, George Miller, 
Thomas Edwards, Jr., Ellas Mulford, Edward Conkling, Jedediah Conk- 
ling Joseph Hicks, Zacheriah Hicks, Jeremiah Dayton, Daniel Baker, 
Isaac Sehellinger, Abraham Baker, Nathan Mulford, Jacob Hedges, 
Jeremiah Barnes, John Gardiner, Jr., Aaron Fithian, David Talmage, 
Jr., Jeremiah Sherrill, Nathan Conkling, 3d, Elnathan Parsons, Cornelius 
Bassett, David Miller, Peleg Miller, Elisha Miller, Daniel King, Daniel 
Edwards, Nathan Miller, Stephen Burnet, James Field, Samuel Mul- 
ford, Benjamin Conkling, Gamaliel Bennett, Seth Parsons, Bichard 
King, Mulford Conkling, William Bassett, ' Ezekiel Miller, John Hunt- 
ting, Abraham Quaw, David Loper, John King, Ichabod Eayner, Smith 
Osboi'ne, Abraham Miller, Jonathan Miller, Samuel Mulford. Ezekiel 
Jones, Ezekiel Jones, Jr., Nathan Conkling, Daniel Loper, Jeremiah 
Loper, David Edwards, Jr., Edward Bennett, Ludlam Parsons, John 
Parsons, Josiah Mulford, Elisha Mulford, Jr., Stephen Russell, Jere- 
miah Hedges, Thomas Talmage, Jeremiah Osborne, John Hedges, 
Samuel Hutchinson, Jacob Miller, Henry Miller, Ezekiel Hand, Abra- 
ham Conkling, Elisha Conkling, Elisha Osborne, Matthew Osborne, 
Jedediah Osborne, Jacob Osborne, Benjamin Hopping, Jonathan Squier, 
Jeremiah Hand, John Talmage, Abraham Osborne, Henry Hopping, 
Elias Hand, Henry Dayton, Zebedee Osborne, John Parsons, John 
Stratton, Jacob Sherrill, Samuel Baker, Micah Hart, Benjamin Leek, 
Abraham Hedges, Jacob Osborne, Jonathan'Schellinger, Thomas Ed- 
wards, David Baker, Sineus Conkling, James Loper, Stephen Cooper, 
Jr., Benjamin Eyres, Benjamin Hedges^ John Parson, 4th, Nathaniel 
Dominy, Edward Wick, Jeremiah Terry, William Ba'rnes, Ananias Mil- 
ler, Thomas Filer, John Hoox. 

"These may certify that every male in the Town of East-Hampton 
have signed the above Association, that are capable of bearing arms. 

By Order of the Committee, 

JOHN OHATFIELD, Chairman. 



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224 

LIST OF OFFICEKS OF THE TOWN. 

1650, Oct. Thos. Talmage, Jr. chosen Secretary; Robert Bond, John 

Mulford and Thos. Baker Committee. 

1651, October 7, John Mulford, Robert Bond and Thos. Baker, Magis- 
trates ; Ealph Dayton, Constable; Benjamin Price, Secretary. 

1652, October, probably John Mulford, Ealph Dayton and Eobert Bond, 

and also John Hand, Thos. Baker, Tho. Chatfield and Benj Price. 

1653, October 4, John Mulford, Thomas Baker and John Hand; Benja- 
min Price, Secretary; Thos. Osborne, Sr., Constable. 

1654, October 3, Eobert Bond, Lion Gardiner and Thomas Baker; Wm. 

Edwards, Constable ; Luke Lillie, Secretary. Assistants, John 
Mulford, Ealph Dayton, Annanias Conklin and Luke Lillie. 

1655, October 3, John Mulford, Thomas Baker and Lion Gardiner; 

Eichard Stratton, Constable ; probably Luke Lillie, Secretary. 

1656, October 7, Lion Gardiner, John Mulfoi'd, Eobert Bond ; Eichard 

Stratton, Constable ; Thomas Talmage, Secretary. 

1657, October G, John Mulford, Thos. Baker and John Hand ; Wm. Mul- 

ford, Constable; Thos. Talmage, Secretary. ("Consent of the 
church," 116.) 

1658, October 27, probably John Mulford, Thos. Baker and John Hand ; 
Thos. Osboru, Jr. Constable; Benjamin Price, Secretary. (Isaac 
Hedges Lot Feb. 6, 1660.) 

1660, February 5, John Mulford, Thos. Baker, Eobert Bond, Magistrate; 

Jeremy Meacham, Constable ; Ben Price, Eecorder. 

1661, February 4, John Mulford, Thos. Baker, Eobert Bond; Eobert 

Dayton, Constable; Benj. Price, Eecorder, 

1662, October 28, Eobert Dayton, Thomas Thompson, Eichard Stratton, 

Mr. Gardiner and Stephen Osborn. 

1662, February 3, Thomas Baker, Eobert Bond, John Mulford; John 

Osborne, Constable; Benj. Price, Eecorder. 

1663, February 23, Thos. Talmage, Thos. Osborne. Eobt. Dayton ; Ben- 

jamin Price, Eecorder; Stephen Hedges, Constable. 

1664, December 21, the same. 

1664, February 23, Wm. Edwards, Wm. Mulford and John Osborne ; 

Eichard Brookes, Constable ; Ben. Price, Recorder, 

1665, April G, Wm. Edwards, Wm. Mulford, John Osborne, Jeremy Mea- 

cham, John Stratton, Tho. Thomson and Jeremy Conklin, Over- 
seers ; Thomas Chattield, Censtable. 

1666, May 2, Wm. Mulford, John Stratton, Jeremiah Conkling, Thomas 

Thomson, Overseers ; John Osborne, Constable ; Eichard Strat- 
ton, Thomas Baker, Thomas Osborne, Jr., Eobert Bond and 
Stephen Hedges, Overseers. 

1667, April 1, Eobert Dayton and Wm. Fithian, Overseers and Thomas 

Baker, Constable. July, Jeremiah Osborne, Secretary. 
1667-8, Feb. 25, Thomas Osborne, Eichard Stratton and Eobert Dayton, 
Overseers; Samuel Mulford, Eecorder. 

1669, John Mulford, Justice of the Peace. 

1670, the same, and Thos. Talmage, Eecorder. 

1671, March 21, John Mulford, Ju=.tice ; Thos. Talmage, Eecorder. 

1672, September 18. the same. 

1673, the same. 

1673, Aug. 22, John Mulford, Lieut. Thos. Talmage, John Strotton, Sr., 

Eichard Stretton, Magistrates. 

1674, April 1, Jeremiah Conkling, Thomas Chatfield, Sen. and Eobert 

Dayton, Selectmen ; Steven Hand, Constable. 



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1676, April 1, Thomas Chatfield and Jeremiah Conkling, Overseers; 
Joseph Osborne, Constable ; Thos. Chatfield, Town Clark and 
Recorder. 

1677, December 27, Thos. Talmage, Eecorder. 

1677, February 17, Joseph Osborne, Constable. 

1678, April 2, Eobert Dayton, Nathl. Bishop, Overseers; Benjamin 

Conkling, Constable. 

1679, April 1, John Miller, Sen., Steven Hedges, Overseer, and Thomas 

Chatfield, Sen.. Constable ; Thos. Talmage, Eecorder. 
16aO, April 2, Thomas Osborn, Jr. and Jeremiah Conkling, Overseers; 
Stephen Hand, Constable; Samuel Mulford, Eecorder. 

1681, April 2, John Stratton, Sen. and John Mulford, Jr. Overseers; 

Benj. Conkling, Constable; Samuel Mulford. Eecorder. 

1682, April 2, Cap. Josiah Hobbert and William Miller, Overseers, and 
Samuel Fitbian. Constable ; Thomas Talmage, Eecorder. 

1683, April 2, Eobert Dayton and John Kirl«, Overseers ; Benjamin Os- 

borne and probably Thos. Talmage. Eecorder. 

1684, April 1, Capt. Josiah Hobart, William Miller and John Kirle, Over- 

seers ; also Samuel Parsons, Enoch Fithiau and John Hoppin. 
John Parsons, Constable. 

1686, April 1, Ensign Samuel Mulford, Lieut. John Wheeler and Ben- 

jamin Conkling chosen "Commissioners for ye trial of small 
cases" and "Overseers or Selectmen." John Mulford, Constable, 
probably Thos. Talmage, Eecorder. 

1687, April 5, Jeremiah Miller, Jeremiah Conkling, Sr., Thomas Chat- 
field, Jr. Commissioners; Enoch Fithian, Nathaniel Talmage, 
Constables ; probably Thomas Talmage, Eeconler. 

1688, April 3, John Mulford, Lieut. John Wheeler, Mr. Thomas Baker, 

Commissioners ; Benjamin Conkling, Steven Stretton, Constables ; 
probably Thomas Talmage, Eecorder. 

1689, April 2d, Daniel Bishop and John Stretton, Constables ; probably 

Thomas Talmage, Eecorder. 

1691, April 7, Richard Shaw, Cornelius Conkling, Constables; probably 

Samuel Mulford, Justice, and Thos. Talmago, Recorder. 

1692, April 5, Samuel Mulford, Justice : Thomas Chatfield, Recorder; 

for Constables Cornelius Stratton and John Squire. 

1693, April 4, John Mulford and Enoch Fithian, Constables. 

1693, Sept. 10, Thomas Chatfield chosen Supervisor. 

1694, April 3, probably Benjamin Conkliuii Justice and Thos. Chatfield, 

Eecorder. 

1694, Oct. 4, Mr. John Mulford, Lieut. Enoch Fithiau, Constables and 

John Mulford, Supervisor. 

1695, April 2, John Wheeler and Samuel Parsons, Jun. Constables; 

probably Thos. Chatfield Eecordei and John Mulford Justice 

1696, April 7, Constables Seth Parsons, Eichard Shaw ; probably Thos. 

Chatfield, Eecorder. 

1696, November, Benj Conkling, Justice. 

1697, April 6, Daniel Osborn and John Hedges, Constables ; probably 

Thos. Chatfield, Eecorder. 

1698, April 5, Samuel Filer, Ebenezer Leek, Constables. 

1698, Oct. 3. Capt. Wheeler, Supervisor; probably Thos. Chatfield, 
Town Clerk. 

1699, April 4, Ebenezer Leek and William Edwards, Constables; Thos. 

Chatfield, Treasurer and Town Clerk; Samuel Mulford, Justice. 

1700, April 2, Ebenezer Leek and William Barnes, Constables ; Abraham 

Schellens, Supervisor ;. probably Thomas Chatfield, Clerk. 



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1701, April 1, Probably Josiah Hobart Justice, Thomas Chatfield Super- 

visor and Recorder, Eporaim Edwards aud Matthias Burnat Con- 
stables, Josiah Hobart Justice, John Wheeler Justice. 

1702, April 7, John Mulford, Supervisor; Kobert Hudson aud John Hos- 

smtoti, Constables; Thomas Ch»tfield, Town Clerk; Josiah Ho- 
bart, Justice. 

1703, April 6, Jolin Mulford, Supei'visor ; Thomas Edwa,ids and Samuel 

Hedges, Constables; Josiah Holiart, Justice; Thomas Chatheld, 
Recorder; John Mulft)rd, Justice; Cornelius Conlvliiig, Town 
Clerlv ; John Wheeh^r, Justice. 

1704, April 4, Capt. Wheeler, Supervisor; EiienezHr Leek and Ebenezer 
Belden, Constables; Thoujas Chatlield, Recorder and Town 
Clerk; Josiah Hobart arul John AVheeler, Justices. 

1705, April 3, Coi'nelius Coukling, Sapervisor ; Robert Mon' and John 

Jcnes, Constables; Thomas Chatlield, Recorder aud Town Clerk; 
Joliii Wheeler, Justice, and also Josiah Hobart. 
170(), April 2, Capt. Wheeler, Supervisor; William Edwards aud Robert 
Parsons, Constables; Thos. Chatfield, Town Clerk. 

1707, April 1, John Wheeler, Supervisor ; Ebenezer Leek and Joshua 

Garlick, Constables; Thos. Chatfield, Town Clerk; Jacob Bailler- 
geau. Justice, and Josiah Hobart, probably. 

1708, April 6, Capt. Wheeler, Supervisor ; Isaac Mulford aud Daniel 

Miller, Constables; Tho's. Chatfield, Town Clerk ; Josiah Hobart, 
Justice. 

1709, April 5, Capt. John Wheeler, Supervisor; Abiid Carle and Thomas 

Talniage, Constables; Thos. Chatfield, Town Clerk and Cornelius 
Conkling; Justice, Josiah Hobart. 

1710, April 4, Capt. Wheeler, Supervisor; David Weils, John Mulford, 

Jr., Constables; Thos. Chatfield, Town Clerk; Josiah Hobart, 
Justice. 

1711, April 3, Capt. Wheeler, Supervisor; Nathl. Dorainy and Eliakim 

Conkling, Constables ; Ihos. Chatfield, Town Clerk; probably 
Joh)^ Mulford, Justice. 

1712, April 1, Capt. John Wheeljr, Supervisor; Thomas Chatlield and 

William Hedges, Constables ; Cornelius Couklir.g. Town Clerk; 
John Mulford, Justice. 

1713, April 7, Capt. John Wheeler, Supervisor; Nathai; Miller aud Aaron 

Fithian, Constables ; Robeit Hudson aud Capt. Burnit to super- 
vise intestate estates ; Cornelius Conkling, Town Clerk ; Matthi- 
as Burnett, Justice. 

1714, April 6, Capt. Wheeler, Supervisor ; Wm. Edwards and Thomas 

Osborne, Jr., Constables; Cornelius Conkling, Town Clerk; 
probably Matthias Burnett and John Mulford, Justices. 

1715, April 4, Capt. Wheeler, Supervisor ; Aron Fithiah and Daniel Os- 

born, C nstables; Cornelius Conkling. Town Clerk; Matthias 
Burnett. Justice. 

1716, April 3, Capt. Wheeler, Supervisor ; Isaac Mulford and John Conk- 

ling, Constables; Cornelius Conkling, Town Clerk; Matthias 
Burnet, Justice aud Robt. Hudson. 

1717, April 2, Capt. John Wheeler, Supervisor: i>enjamin Townsend 

aud Thomas Dibble, Constables; Coraeliua Coukling, Cown 
Clerk; Robert Hudson, Justice. 

1718, April 1, Capt. Matthias Burnet, Supervisor; Edward Petty and 

John Merry, Constables; Cornelius Couliling, Town Clerk; Rob- 
ert Hudson, Justice. 

1719, April 7, Capt. Matthias Buruet, Supervisor; Wiu. Osborn and 



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Ephriam Bvirnot, Constables; Cornelius Conkling, Town Clerk; 
Robert Hudson. Justice. 

1720, April 5, Oapt. Matthias Burnett, Supei-vtsor; John Scjuire and 
Stephen Hand, Jr., Constables; Cornelius Conkling, Town Clerk. 

1721, April 4. Capt. Matthias Burnet, Supeiwisor; Cornelius Conkling, 

Town Clerk ; Nathl. Baker, Jr. and John Stratton, Jr., Consta- 
bles; liol)erl Hudson, Justice. 

1722, April 3, Capt. Matthias Burnet, Supervisor; Thos. MuU'ord, Jr. 

aud Eeconipeuse Leek, Constables; Cornelius Conkling, Town 
Clerk ; Robert Hudson, Justice. 

1723, April 2, Capt. Matthias Butnet. Supervisor; Eliphalet Stratton 

and Daniel Jones, Constables; Cornelius Conkling, Town Clerk; 
Thonuis Chatfield, Justice. 

1724, April 7. Capt. Matthias Burnet, Supervisor; Samuel Baker and 

Daniel Baker, Constables ; Cornelius Conkling, Town Clerk ; 
Thos. Chatfield, Justice. 

1725, April 6, Capt. Burnet, Supervisor; John Conkling and Ar.<n Fith- 

iari. Constables; Cornelius Conkling, Town Clerk. 

1726, April 5, Capt. Bui net Supervisor; Samuel Parsons, Jr. and Sam- 

uel Conkling, Constables; Cornelius Conklins, Town Clerk. 

1727, April 4, Capt. Matthias Burnet, Supervisor; Josiah Miller and 

Cornelius Conkling, Jr., Constables; Coruelius Conkling, Town 
Clerk; probably Matthias Burnet, Justice. 

1728, April '2, Capt. Matthias Burnet, Supervisor; John btretton, Jr. 

and Nathan Dayton, Constables; Cornelius Conkling, Town Clerk 
and Thomas Chat(i<'ld, Justice. 

1729, April 1, Capt. Matthias Burnet. Supervisor; Joseph Hix and Isaac 

Hedges, Constables ; Cornelius Conkling, Town Clerk; Matthixs 
Burnet, Justice. 

1730, April 7, Capt. Matthias Burnett, Supervisor; Joseph Hicks and 
Jacob Schellinx, Constables ; Cornelius Conkling, Town Clerk; 
Matthias Burnett, Justice. 

1731, April 6, Capt. Matthias Burnett, Supervisor; Geo. Smith and Seth 

Parsons, Constables. 

1732, April 4, Capt. Burnet, Supervisor ; Timothy Hudson and Joseph 

Hicks. Constables ; Cornelius Conkling, Town Clerk ; Matthias 
Burnett. Justice. 

1733, April 3, Capt. Matthias Burnett, Supervisoi ; Joseph Hicks and 

Eliakim Conkling, Constables; Matthias Burnet, Justice; Corne- 
lius Conkling, Town Clerk. 

1734, April 2, Capt. Matthias Burnett, Supervisor; Joseph Hicks and 

Eliakim Conkling, Constables; Cornelius Conkling. Town Clerk; 
Thos. Chatlield, Ju-tice. 

1735, April 1, Capt. Matthias Burnett, Supervisor; Joseph Hicks and 

Eliakim Conkling. Constables; Cornelius Conkling, Town Clerk; 
Thos. Chatfield, Juctice. 

1736, April 6, Capt. Burnett, Supervisor; .Joseph Hicks and Samuel 

Parsons, Constables; Cornelius Conkling, Town Clerk; Matthias 
Burnett, Justice. 

1737, April 5, Capt. Matthias Burnett, Supervisor; Joseph Hicks, and 

Samuel Parsons, Jr., Constables; Cornelius Conkling, Town Clerk. 

1738, April 4, Capt. M'ltthias Bunu'tt, Supervisor; Samuel Parsons. Jr. 

and Joseph Hicks, Constables ; Cornelius Conkling, Town Clerk ; 
probably Thos. Chatfield, Justice. 

1739, April 3, Eleazer Miller, Supervisor ; Joseph Hicks and Nathan 



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Conkling, Constables; Cornelius Conkling, Town Clerk; Thomas 
Chatfield, Justice. 

1740, April 1, Eleazer Miller, Supervisor; John Parsons 4th and Nathan 

Conkling, Constables; Cornelius Conkling, Town Clerk. 

1741, April 7, Thomas Chatfield, Supervisor ; Benjamin Leek and Na- 

than Corkling, Constables; Burnet Miller, Town Clerk; Thomas 
Chatfield. Judge. 

1742, April 6, Thos. Chatfield, Supervisor; Ananias Conkling and Nath- 

an Conkling, Constables; Thomas Chatfield, Judge; Cornelius 
Conkling, Town Clerk. 

1743, April 5, Thomas Chatfield, Supervisor; Jonathan Baker, Jr. Ana- 
nias Conkling and Henry Dayton, Constables; Cornelius Conk- 
ling, Town Clerk. 

1744, April 3, Cornelius Conkling, Jr., Supervisor; Adam Cady and An- 

nanias Conkling, Constables ; Cornelius Conkling, Town Clerk. 

1745, April 2, Cornelius Conkling, Jr,, Supervisor; Ajdam Cady and 

Thomas Dibble, Jr., Constables. 

1746, April 1, Cornelius ConlUing, Supervisor; Beriah Dayton,. Jr. and 
John Parsons, 3d, Constables. 

1747, April 7, Cornelius Conkling, Jr., Supervisor; Burnet Miller, Town 

Clerk ; Beriah Dayton and Simon Conkling, Constables. 

1748, April 5, Cornelius Conliling, Jr., Supervisor; Beriah Dayton and 

Timothy Mulford Constables; Burnet Miller, Town Clerk. 

1749, April 4, Cornelius Conkling, Supervisor; Beriah Dayton and Abra- 

ham Mulford, Constables; Burnet Miller, Town Clerk; 

1750, April 3, Cornelius Conkling, Supervisor; Beriah Dayton and 
Thomas Osborn, Constables ; Burnet Miller, Town Clerk. 

LIST?OF SUPEKVISOES OF EAST-HAMPTON, 
From 1750 to 1849, inclusive. 
Cornelius Conklin, 1750, '51, '52, '53, '54, '55, '56, '57, '58, '59, '60, '62, '63. 
Capt. Isaac Barnes, 1761. 

Burnet Miller, 1764, '65, '66, '67, '69, '70, '71, '72, '73, '74, '75, '76. 
Col. Abraham Gardiner, 1768. 
Nathaniel Dominy, 1777, '78, '79. 
Ezekiel Mulford, 1780, '81, '82, '83, '84. 
Capt. John Dayton, 1785, '86, '87, '88. 
Abraham Miller, 1789, '90, '91, '92, '93, '94, '95, '96, '99. 
Jonathan Dayton, 1798. 
Abraham Miller, 1800, '03, '04, '05. 

Jonathan Dayton, 1801, '02, '06, '07, '08, '09, '10, '11, '12, '13, '14, '15. 
Jonathan S. Conkling, 1816, '17, 18, '19, '20, '21, '22, 2'3, '24, '25. 
David Hedges, Jr., 1826. '36, '37, '38, '39, 
Abraham Parsons, 1827, '28. 
Abel Huntington, 1829, '30, '31, '32, '44. 
Daniel Dayton, lg33. 
Felix Dominy, 1834, '35. 
Charles H. Miller, 1840, '41, '42. '43. 
Samuel B. Gardiner, 1845. 
George L. Huntington, 1846, '47, '48, '49. 



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The following, with other memoranda, iucliides a complete list of all 
church members in East-Hampton from 169G to 1800, who are marked 
thus "R" as removed from there. 

An account of the communicants or members in full communion of 
the church in East-Hampton. Those that are dead marked thus (*) or 
(_) Those that are removed to other places marked thus (R). , 

Those that were communicants when I, Nathl. Huntting, was or- 
dained at E. Hampton : 

MAI.ES— NAMES. FEMALES— NAMES. 

E The wife of Th. Diament, 
E, The wife of Corn. Stretton, 
E, Widow Harris, 
E The wife of Sam Fithian, 
E The wife of Eben. Leek, 



NO- 

2 

6 

7 

11 

15 



E The wife of Th. Edwards, Sen. 20 
Those that have been admitted or restored to full communion since 

with some others received from other 



N. Huntting was ordained, 

churches : 

E Mr. John Avery, 

E Saml. Barnes, 

E Thomas Diament, 

E Benjamin Osborn, Jun. 

E Joseph Lawrence* 

E Mr. Ab. Natt* 

R Lieut. John Wheeler* 

1726-7 E Nathl. Diament, 



17 E The wife of Jacob Skellinx, 

18 E The wife of Eich. Shaw, 
25 E The wife of Philip Leek, Jr, 
28 E Widow of Matthew Barnes, 

32 E Sarah, wife of G. Miller, 

33 E Hannah, wife Th. Diament, 
35 E Abigail Hand, 
40 E Mary Barns, 

E Sarah, wife Sam Mulford, Jr 
E The wife of Saml. Barnes, 
E *Elizabeth, wife Th. Osborn.Jr 38 
E Elizabeth Christophers, 43 

E Ann Stratton, 44 

E Elizabeth, wife of B. Osborn, Jr 46 
E Mercy, wife of N. Earls, 52 

E Bethiah Hicks, 53 

E The wife of Joseph Lawrence, 54 



FEMALES. 

E Phebe Skellinx, widow, 55 

E Elizabeth Gelaspie, 62 

E wife of Lieut. Wheeler, 63 

E Mary Talmage, daughter of Capt. 

Talmage, deceased, 66 

E Wife of John Meare, 70 

E Mary, wife Capt. Mulford, 71 

E Mary, wife of Nathan Cooper, 73 

E Sarah, widow of Nathan Mulford, 74 

1726, Aug. 28, E Abigail, the wife of 

Mordecai Homan, 79 

E The wife of Nathl. Diament, 81 

E Dinah, Indian maid, 82 

1727, E The wife of John Wheeler 3d 87 
July 2, E The wife of Cornelius Cor- 
nelius Conkling, Junr, 89 

E Sarah, daughter of Th. Edwards 94 
E Hannah, daughter of Sam. Barnes 95 

1728, May 26, E Mercy wife Sam Baker 97 



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1728-9, Feb. 23, E Widow Penny, 100 

1730, Ap. 26, R Mary, wife of Tim. Hudson, 101 
1733, May 27, E Hannah, wife of Peter Coen 107 

1737, Aug. 28, E Mary, wife of Sam Huntting 111 
E Jane, daughter of Lewis Mulford, deed. 116 

1738, E Mehitabel Osborn, 121 

1739, E Wife of Wm. Dixhorn, 127 

1740, E Wife of Saml. Merry, 134 
E Wife of Timothy Mulford, Jun. 135 

June 22, E Wife of Lemuel Conkl, 138 

An account of persons received into full communion with the church 
of X in East-Hampton by me Sail. Buel, Pastor of ye church since niy 
instalment, which was Sept. ye 19th, 1746. 

When I received ye Pastoral care of ye church it consisted of 23 males 
and females 58, in all 81 members. 

Eeceived into ye church in March, 1747, the Persons whose names 
follow, and all in one day, viz : 41 Persons. N. B. Those marked yt 
have a star * affixed to ye persons are dead. Those marked thus — or 
E are removed out of town. 

1747 Gedion Hedges E 5 E 

Daniel Conkling 7 E 

Jacob Miller 8 E 

Ezekel Hedges 9 E 

Females, Abigail Hedges, wife of Gedeon Hedges * 16 E 

Sarah Conkling, widow * 17 E 

Abigail Conkling, w. of Jonathan G 32 E 

Abigail Conkling, w. Dan Conk * 34 E 

Puah Hud.son 38 R 

Anne Hedges, w. Lem. H . . 39 E 

These all taken in in one day, ye Sabbath before first communion : 

1747, Dec. Daniel Talmage * 45 E 

1747, Eeceived also ye wife of Mr. Murdock * 53 R 

And ye wife of Jacob Miller * 54 R 

1750, August ye 19th, received into ye church : 

Elizabeth Hicks * 63 E 

Thomas Mulford, Jr E 66 

1754 Jane Dayton E 78 

Mr. Benjamin Conkling EE 81 

1764 Esqr. Burnet Miller E 88 

Hannah, wife Henry Dayton EE 93 

Euth, wife of Isaac Huntting R 98 

Bethiah Hicks E 106 

Lewis Conkling E 108 

Mary Conkling E 109 

Lucretia Conkling E 113 

Temperance, wife of Eleazar Conkling ' E 114 

Phebe, consort of Capt. David Mulford E 117 

Jane Edwards E or uncertain 120 

Eunice, wife of B. Chapel E 141 

Abigail, wife of Joseph Conkling E 144 

Stephen Osborn E 147 

Phebe, wife of Edward Wick E— 148 

Elizabeth Filer .*. . . .E— 154 



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Esther Osborn Removed 171 

Joshua Larkin R* 173 

Daniel Scellinx E — 174 

Eunice Kooper R 176 

Elias Mulford R* 179 

Elizabeth Edwards R 183 

Briah Daj'ton 38G 

Mar^-, wife of Leut. Baker R 191 

WilJiam Heris R 199 

Jan. 1st, 1767. Upon a review I find thatwlien I received this church 
as Pastor, there were 81 members. Tliere remains of them now but 
21. But 45 have died and removed tliat I have received. Remains 
now Jan. 1st, 1767, 177 members in full communion. Abigail Dayton 
died July 16th, 1798, four days before Dr. Buell. She was the last sur- 
viving person that was a member of the church under the Rev. Mr. 
Huntting. 

1775, Dec. Samuel Baker's wife Abigail R 211 

1784 Received Mr. Bunee of Huntington R— 215 

1785-86 Mary, wife of Matt Mulford R* 217 

Temperance Osborn Uncertain, R — 221 

Phebe Osborn iS 222 

Phebe Sheril ii 223 

Mary Sheril jR 224 

Nathan Mulford and | R 230 

Esther his Consort, \ R 231 

Betsee Jones R 241 

William Talmage E 243 

Mehitable Jones i? 250 

Esther Jones Uncertain R 251 

Naoaii Sheril ii 254 

Fradic King and [ R 257 

Lydia hi? wife j i? 258 

Palle Tillingniss 72 262 

• • Keziah Hedges Uncertain, R 263 

Leah Domine i2 267 

Phebe Mulford Uncertain R 268 

Betsee Hart jR 269 

Jacob Osborn i? 272 

Polly Buel, my daughter R 281 

Jon Oonklin Brush R 282 

Esther Isaacs ii 286 

Susanna Osborn R 287 

Salle Barns ii 290 

Edward Pilkiu ii 293 

Unie Hoppiu iJ 295 

Mary Hoppin i? 296 

Stephen Cooper , IR 306 

Betsee Talmage Uncertain, R 309 

Mary, wife of Steph(m Cooper R 312 

Elizabeth Osborn Uncertain R 313 

Phebe Hedges iJl 316 

Abigail Foster 72 320 

1799, Sept. 4. There was in the church when I received the Pastoral 
charge 109 persons, L. B. 



$02. There have died 9 persons. 


The followin; 


Nathaniel Sherril, 


R 




Jonathan Huntting, 


R 




Phebe Mulford, 


R 


* 


Phebc Miller, 


R 




Hannah Baker, 


R 




Sarah Leek, 


R 





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MEMORANDA FROM THE JOURNAL OF THE TRUSTEES 

OF THE FKEEHOIiDEKS AND COMONALTY OF EAST-HAMPTON. 

1726, December 26, Trustees agreed on a price for produce, viz : Page 3 

s d s d 

"Wheat, 4 6 per bushel. Rye, 3 per bushel. 

Ind. Corn, 2 6 " Flax, 6 per pound. 

Oats, 14 " Tallow, 5 

1727, July 26. Did discourse and consider in what manner to fin- 

ish the Meeting House. Page 4 

1727-8, Feb. 13. Agreed to pay Mordecai Homan £3, 15s, Od for 
ringing the bell and sweeping the Meeting House for one 
year. Page 5 

1799, December. Voted either right or wrong that the town's 
money in Jer. Mulford's hands shall go to pay Mr. Hunt- 
ting's taxes. 

1732, March. Agreed that Negroes may sit in 2d gallery, west 

side. Page 6 

1731-2, January 21. Indians commonly dwell at Springy Banks, 

3 mile harbor, in summer time. Page 7 

1736. Samuel Hedges to keep bars and account of cattle at Hith- 
er end of Moutauk, as he used to do. Page 8 

1739, July 9. Jonathan Stratton had liberty of the School House 

to teach school, &c. Page 9 

1740, Jan. 22. Ordered that the bell be rung at 9 of the clock. " 
1750, May 1. Brick kills mentioned. 

1743, April 25. Agreed with Jonathan and Benjamin Hedges to 

keep the Hither end of Montauk. Page 10 

1744, June 20. Capt. Baker to build house for shepherd west of 

Fort Pond. * Page 10 

1746, June 3. The sand hills blowing, &c. Page 11 

1747, April 9. Agreed to build town Poor House. Page 12 

1756, Oct. 29. Api)ointed John Dayton to prosecute any person 

not an inhabitant who shall presume to hunt after deer or 
fowl in the town. Page 15 

1757, March 8. Agreed to let Eleazer Miller and the rest of the 

vessel owners get timber for another vessel of about 90 tons 

for £5, Page 15 

1757, July 5. Agreed to send 4 pounds powder and 8 pounds lead 

or bullets to Montauk for the Indians, in case of invasion 

by an enemy. Page 15 

1758, June 27. Trustees agreed to make a pew in the Meeting 

House where the east door was, and to lay a floor in the 
belfry over the bell where the clock is. Page 16 

1758, Nov. 7. Agreed to sell to Henry Hand one-lialf an acre to 
set his house on in the hollow at Wainscott, adjoining 
Henry's laud. Page 16 



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1761, March 24. Agreed to pay Dr. Elihu Howell £4-10 for curing 

Elisha Wick's hand when he shot it. Page IG 

1757, List ol soldiers that went to Jamaica. Page 19 

1773, Dec. 15. Agreed that no person shall set up inoculation of 

the small pox in the town, &c. Page 20 

1775, Aug. 9. Agreed that no cattle go to Moutauk till ordered, 
as they were brought off on account of a fleet that appeared 
off die point and went to Fisher's Island aftjr cattle. Page 20 

1777, Dec. 15. Agreed to let Daniel Dayton have a flat near the 

warehouse at North West. Page 21 

1779, April 12. Agreed with Christopher Hedges to live at Fort 

Pond House. Page 21 

1779, Aug. 23. British took cattle from Montauk. Page 22 

1780, Aug. 15. Agreed that Jer. Conkling and Jer. Osborne pro- 
vide cattle and other necessaries for the troops when in 
town. Page 22 

1781, Dec. 31. Assigned to. each man his proportion of 40 tons of 

hay demanded by the Government. Page 22. 

1782, Feb. 4. Agreed that Luis Osborn go to Southampton to 

confer with the Doctors respecting their assisting Daniel 
Dayton in the inoculation of the small pox. Page 22 

1784, Feb. 23. Agreed to give the inhabitants of the north side 

£15 to build a school house. Page 22 

1785, May 30. Jedediah Osborne mentioned. Page 23 
1787, March 19. Nathan Hand mentioned. " 
1789, Nov. 5. Phineas Hedges mentioned. " 
1789, April 27. Benj. Pike mentioned. " 
1792, March 5. Trustees agreed to give Henry Dominy £8 to 

build a school house at North West. Page 24 

179G, June 30. Agreed to pay £12 toward building a school house 

at Wainscott. Page 24 

1797, April 10. Agreed to take down the upper galleries in the 

meeting house. Fage 24 

1797, July 3d. Vote to build a house at Fort Pond. Page 25 

1798, Aug. 27. Vote to build a house at hither end of Montauk. 

1799, April 23. Vote to have the upper galleries put up with 

banisters. " 

1800, Jan. 6. Voted Philip Hedges to live at Hither End of Mon- 

tauk. " 

1800, April 7. Voted John Huutting's claim to pew. Page 26 

1801, Oct. 12. Agreed to paint the Meeting House a light red or 

peach bloe. " 

1803, Dec. 5. Voted to erect guide posts on the road to Sag- 
Harbor. Page 27 

1806, Jan. 13. Voted to build a house where Jared Hand lives. " 

1807, Feb. 16. Agreed with Lewis Edwards to live at the fatting 

field at Montauk. " 

1810, April 16. Agreed to get a box made in the galery with a 



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lock on it for Mr. Diiuon to put his rsalni book and pitcli 

pipe iiio Page 29 

1818, June 1. Agreed to take one box containing 25 muskets with 

animunitioji, iVc, belonging to this state, for the use of 
persons wlio are exempted from the body of the militia for 
the defence of the County of Suffolk, and to give bonds for 
tiie same. Page 31 

1S19, Aug. IG. Agreed to h^t David Gardiner, Esq. eiudose the 

graA'es of his i-arents iu the burial grounds. Page 33 

1819, March 24. Agreed to leas«! a piece of laud near the mouth 

of N. W. creek for a wharf. Page 34 

1823, Sept. 1. Agreed to let Joshu;i Penny build a wharf at the 

landing place near his house " 

1824. Sept. G. Agreed that Col. Joliii P. Decatur have 1il)erty to 

dig on Moatauk for eart.h for tlie purpose of making paint, 
at Is per ton. 

1824, Oct. 11. Granted Mr. Jeremiah Huntting libeity for holding 

evening conferences in the Town house. " 

1825, May 9. Agreed that the people of Jei-ico enclose their 

burial ground. Page 35 

1825, Oct. 14. Ord(U-ed two biers be made at tlii> public expense- " 
1825, Dee. 12. Made a divi(k>nd of .$5.00 on i of Montauk. 

JOURNAL OF J. MADISON HUNTTING.— MEMORANDA. 

1841, June 1. A whale was seen in Gardiner's Bay to-day. 

June 16. The ship Henrj- sailed to-day ; li. Youngs, captain ; 
Geo Brown and Henry Couklin, mates; William Huntiug, boat- 
steerer. 

July 28. A whale was killed oil Amagausett day before yesterday. 

Oct. 3. Heavy blow from the east; greatest wind experienced 
in 25 years. 

Nov. 8. In the mor.jing snow; during tlie day very dark ; re- 
quired candles lighted. 

Nov. 10. Ellis Parsons died, aged 85 years. 

Dec. 9. Thanksgiving Day. 
1812, June 8. Cold for the season ; some ice formed last night at Free- 
town. 

Aug. 2. Yesterday the corner stone of the Presbyterian church 
in Bridge-Hampton was laid. 

Sept. 25. Mr. Livingston and Mr. Henry Hedges delivered ad- 
dresses to the Sabbatli School. 

Oct. 14. Mr. Jeremiah Dayton's house burnt with ail its contents 
1843, Jan. 17. The new Presbyterian church at Bridge-Hampton was 
dedicated to-day. 

Feb. 15. Tills day, according to the predictions of the Israelite, 
is the day when the dissolution of the world is to take place. 
But nothing at present has occurred to the natural eye in the 
heavens above or on the earth beneath. Everything assumes 
the same appearance. 

June 15. To-day the corncu- stone of tiie new Pr(^sbyterian church 
in Sag-Harbor was laid. 

July 4. Celebration in East-Hampton to-day. 



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Aug. 30, Wednesday. To-day Doctor Lymau Beecher adminis- 
tered tlie Sacrament. It was indeed a very solemn, interesting 
and deliglitful occasion. His two sous were also present. 
Their parting addresses, winged with much Cnristian love and 
affection, will long be remembered, and as this day was ap- 
pointed as a day for visitation of neighboring ministers, no 
less than 9 or 10 were present. The day is pleasant, although 
warm. Doctor Beecher preached from Luke 7th Ch. 36 to 48 vs. 
Dec. 14. Thanksgiving. 
JSll. Feb. (1. The wife of Isaac VanScoy died to-day, aged 84 years. , 
Aug. (i. Mr. Ezekiel Payne died to-day, aged 92 years. 

" 11. Joseph Osborn, Sr., died to-day^ aged 90 years. 
Sept. 10. Abraham Paisons died to-day, aged 73 years. 
" 14. E. ft. Hedges left for the west. H. V. SherriU lelt lor 
the west yesterday. 
1845, Sept. 25. Ex-President Tyler and his lady visited East-Hampton 
to-day. 
Oct. 3. fteneral Training in East Hampton to day. 
Dec 31. Twenty-eight deaths in East-Hampton in 1845. 
1840, Sept. 19. Gov. Wright and Mr. Flagg, comptroller of the State 
are visiting East-Hampton. 
Oct. 14. The most heavy wind I ever knew— many fences blown 

down. , „ , 

Nov 30 Unusuallv high winds this mouth. A number of wrecks 
.along our siiore. " The steamer Atlantic cast ashore on Fish- 
ers Island. 
Dec. 31. 31 deaths in ]«40. 
1S47, Jan. 22. Killed a whale off Amagansett yesterday. 
Mar. 25. Killed a whale off Wainscott to-day. 
Apr. 13. Killed a whale to-day. . 

Apr. 14. Took a whale at Bridge-Hampton this morning : also 
one at Southampton. Thesemakesix whales taken m two days. 
A great show of whales off the coast, such as has not been 
known for many years. 
May 1. Went on board a shii) which is ashore oi)posite Bridge- 
Hampton. 
Dec. 31. 28 deaths in 1847. 
1848 March 1. To-dav a Parish meeting was held for the purpose of 
incorporating the Societv and calling it the First Presbyterian 
Church of East-Hampton. Six trustees were chosen as follows : 
Stephen Hedges, Baldwin 0. Talmage, David H. Huntting, Syl- 
vester D. Ranger, Da- id H. Miller and Talmage Barnes. 
March 2. A whale captured off Amagansett. 
March 13 Vendue at Moutauk off the wreck of a schooner, 
Sept. 13. Abraham P. Sherrill and family left here to-day for the 

far west. Also George Cook for Brooklyn. 
Dec. 31. 20 deaths in 1848. 
1849, Jan. 31. A bull was butchered by John Hedges which weighed 
l,004.i pounds. i -. . U4. 

Feb loT Thermometer stood 4© below zero last night. 
28 deaths in 1849. 
1850 May (5. A ship came on shore at Moutauk loaded with coal 
185l' Aug. 23. The ship Catherine, of Liverpool, from Dublin, with 
near 300 passengers came ashore last night off Amagansett. 



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1852, July 28. Ex-President Martin Van Buren and his son John came 

in town this afternoon. 

1853, Feb. 17. A schooner went ashore at Napeague last night. 

1854, Nov. 10. The French ship Virgin Mary came ashore at the high- 

land and loaded with emigrants. 
1856, Feb. 4. Thermometer 2 below zero this morning. The ocean 

frozen for nearly two miles from shore. 
Feb. 5. Ice piled up 7 to 10 feet high. 

Feb. 6. People are crossing from Gardiner's Island on the ice. 
Nov. 20. Samuel Mulford and Cynthia Lester were married in the 

Presbyterian Church to-day. The first marriage that ever took 

place there. 
Dec. 14. A brig came ashore on Montauk this afternoon. 

1858, Feb. 21. A ship came ashore at Montauk yesterday. 

Feb. 23. Eleven bodies have been picked up along shore from the 

wrecked ship John Milton. 
May 4. Tlie schooner A. L. Hardy came ashore last night. 
Oct. 11. Mrs. Elizabeth Bennett died to-day, aged 99 years. 

1859, April 1. The first daily mail stage from Amagansett to Sag-Har- 

bor commenced running to-day — Jeremiah Baker contractor. 
Aug. 21. Mr. Charles Beecher, a son of Kev. Doctor Lyman 
Beecher, preached to-day. 

1860, Feb. 21. Amagansett has this day formally withdrawn from our 

church, 

June 7. To-day the Sag-Harbor Savings Bank commenced opex'a- 
tions. There were 26 deposits amounting to $729.75. 

Feb. 18. The corner stone of the Presbyterian Church in Ama- 
gansett was laid to-day. 

Aug. 4. The corner stone of the new church was laid at i past 2 
this afternoon. 

Dec. 28. Wires were put on the telegraph poles between Sag- 
Harbor and E. H. to-day. 

1861, May 17. Erecting a Liberty Pole in front of Samuel B. Gardiner's 

and Nathaniel Huntting's. 
May 21. This afternoon the United Stages flag was raised on our 
Liberty Pole. Speeches by Eev. S. L. Mershon, John Wallace 
and Lawton S. Parsons. 

1863, Aug. 6. Gen. George B. McLellan, former commander of the 

Army of the Potomac arrived here to-day, stopping with Capt. 
Jeremiah Mulford. 

1864, Jan. 27. Killed a whale to-day. 



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CLINTON ACADEnV, April no, nSsn. 



EDWAED AND ELEONOEA, a Tragedy, by James Thompson. 

MEN. 

Edward, Prince of England, . . . - . Chas. H. Miller 

Earl of Gloster, - - Patrick T. Gould 

Theald, Archdeacon of Liege, ----- Samuel S. Miller 

Selim, Sultan of Jaffa, - - Lewis Miller 

WOMEN. 

Eleonora, Princess of England, - - - Miss Jerusha D. Fithian 
Daraxa, an Arabian Princess, - - - - Mary Ann G. Miller 



THE MOCK DOCTOR, by H. Fieldihg, Esq. 



Gregory, 
Leander, - 
Sir Jasper, 
Harry, - 
James, 
Squire Eobert, 



Jeremiah Miller 

- - Caleb Smith 
Patrick T. Gould 

Charles Dimon 

- Theron A. Filer 
Lewis Miller 



Dorcas, - - Miss J. D. Fithian 
Charlotte, Mary Ann G. Miller 
Maid, ----- Helen Miller 



THE BEOTHEES, a Tragedy, by Edward Young, L. L. D. 

MEN. 

Philip, King of Macedon, ----- James M. Huntting 

Perseus, his elder son, - - Caleb Smith 

Demetrius, his younger son, Jeremiah Miller 

Pericles, the friend of Perseus, . - - - Jeremiah Talmage 

Antigonus, a Minister of State, Lewis Miller 

Dynas, the King's favorite, Patrick T. Gould 

Posthumius, a Roman Amlaassador, - - - - Charles Dimon 

WOMEN. 

Prirene, Princess of Thrace, - - - Miss Abby Huntington 
Delia, _^,^ Mary B. Gardiner 



THE BEAVE IRISHMAN, by Thomas Sheridan. 



O Blunder, - - - C. H. Miller 

Sconce, C. Dimon 

Terence, - - - Theron A. Filer 
Bagarit, - - - - P. T. Gould 



Tredewell, - - - S. S. Miller 
Cheatwell, - - - Jere Talmage 
Gallypot, - - - - Lewis Miller 
Clyster, - - r - - Caleb Smith 



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In 1849, at the conclusion of the Centennial celebration observances 
in the Church, a large concourse of citizens and strangers enjoyed a 
sumptuous banquet prepared for the occasion at the hotel of Thomas 
T. Parsons, Esq., in East-Hampton. The following are some of the 
toasts then offered : 
1st. Our Fathers : they united faith and works. Cromwell said, '-Trust 

in God and keep j'^our powder dry." 
2d. Our'Mothers : let their daughters honor their memory by imitating 

their virtues. 
3d. 1649 : a year memorable for the settlement of the Town of East- 
Hampton. 
4th. 1749: the completion of our first century — uncelebrated but not 

the less to be remembered. 
5th. 1849 : not unhonored in the calendar of the centuries. 
6th. Jam«s, Huntting and Buell, the three successive semi-centenarian 

pastors of this town. Their works survive them. 
7th. The Old Town Patents : the Palladium of our rights. 
8th. The Patentees of the Town of East-Hampton of 1666 and 1686 : 

honor to their memory. 
9th. The Old Church : venerable for its age, liallowed in its influence, 

it has Avithstood the storms of one hundi'ed and thirty-two years. 
10th. Clinton Academy : may her children continue to rise up and call 

her blessed. 
11th. The Old Town Clock : one hundred and fifteen years old ; may it 

run a hundred and fifteen more. 
12th. Wyandanch, Sachem of Montauk, 1658 : the friend of the white 

man. 
13th. The Ladies of East-Hampton : as the garlands their hands have 

"woven adorn our venerable church, so do their graces embellish 

the household virtues they inherit. 

VOLUNTEER TOASTS. 

"The manners of our forefathers, the expression of nature: may they 

continue forever the manners of their descendents." 
"The medical profession of East-Hamptou," (impromptu l>y another) 

"sure death to all diseases." 
"The people of East-Hampton : they have Hands for useful labor, Par- 
sons for guides, and Hedijes for defence." 
"The men of the past : 'there were giants in those days.' " 
"The men of the future : nature has not yet exhausted her list of great 

nam«s." 
"The men of the present generation : their character moulded by the 

men of the past, must itself mould that of the men of the future." 
"Our kindred in the Old World : we recognize John Bull as our father; 
the dwellers on the banks of the Seine as our brother Republicans ; 
and the dwellers on the banks of the Rhine as our 'cousin German.' " 
"Drink ye to her that each^loves best : 
And if ye nurse a flame 
That's known but to her^mutual breast, 
"We will not ask her name." — Camphell. 



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Modoru Witches : 

"Our witches are no longer old 
And wrinkled beldams satan sold, 
But young, and gay, and laughing creatures. 
With the heart's sunshine in their features." — WhiUier. 
"The orator of the day : may he witness many i-eturns of the centennial 
anniversary of the settlement of the town ! 'May he live a thous- 
and years ! May his shadow never grow less.' " 



At the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the settlement of the 
Town, in 1849, the following odes, composed by Miss Cornelia Hunting- 
ton, were sung. It had been intended to have the celebration ou 
Christmas day, and the unavoidable postponement to the next day af- 
forded insufficient time to substitute others. 

ODE. 

Come ye who have gone forth from this fair isle, 
To win friends, fortune, fame — in other climes — 

Back to j'our early haunts and homes awhile, 
Unroll with us, the records of old times ; 

Call to the fresh young hours now fleeting fast, 
"Ho ! hurrying train — what of the dim old past?" 

What of the dim old past? Why seek to stay 
The rushing present, witli such bootless quest? 

Ask the grey grave-stones crumbling in decay, 
Who sleep beneath, in deep and dreamless rest? 

Ask tireless ocean, booming on the shore, 

Who trod those wave-washed sands in days of yore? 

Who trod thos(5 wave-washed sands? liigh hearts of old ! 

Strong men of giant minds, and stalwart mould. 
By goading wrongs to daring deeds impelled. 

Patient of toil — -in (hinger calm and bold — 
Wise, wary, watchful, weighing all tilings well, 
Men whose stern will oppression could not quell. 

Neath these grey stones, who sleep in dreamless rest? 

Men faithful — fervent — (doquent — sincere — 
Dauntless to do their Masters high behest, 

James — Huntting — Buell — household words and dear. 
Names loved ami lisp'd in childhood's earnest tones — 
Names breathed in prayer from altars and liearth-stones. 

.\nd one more dear ye mourn — one who but now 
Call'd in the dewy dawn of manhood's pride, 

With glory beaming on his fair young brow. 
Went calmly down to slumber by their side. 

Teaching in life, and breathing from his dust 
"Jehovah Jired ! peace — be still — and trust." 



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ODE. 

Hush ! hush ! the year is dying — 

Hark ! through old forests dim- 
rhe wailing winds are sighing 

Their requiem over liim — 
In quiet deep and holy, 

Me sinks to his repose, 
And languidly and slowly. 

His weary eyelids close. 

Now come'with'tearful sadness, 

The parting year review. 
While others hail with;^gladness. 

The advent of the new. 
In glad young hearts are welling 

Fresh fountains of delight, 
In many a festive dwelling 

The Christmas fires are bright. 



And stricken ones are weeping 

Beside the darkened hearth. 
O'er loved and lost ones sleeping. 

Low in the tranquil earth — 
Strange — strange, what bitter blighting- 

What deeds to startle thought — 
Wild, wonderful, exciting. 

One short, sad year hath wrought. 

While we stir the dust of ages, 

Time's dreamy realms explore — 
Spell out from mould'riug pages, 

Their quaintly wi-itten lore — 
'Twere well to bind this lesson. 

For profit, on the heart, 
'Men only live to hasten 

Like shadows to depart. 

See shining o'er life's billow 

That star, whose guiding ray, 
Stood where on hallowed pillow, 

The Babe of Bethleliem lay ! 
And still those rays illuming. 

Low porch and fretted dome — 
Proclaim thy glorious coming 

Salvator Hominum ! 



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FAOETIA. 

It would be a mistake to cnnlit Ea*^t-Ha:npton with little wit. Few 
villages would surpass it, ia coudensed epigram, quaint humor, aud 
sparkling repartee. Some anecdotes of Dr. Buell have been noticed. 
The following, it is t>elieved, was never printed : 

In crossing from Gardiner's Island to the Fire Place, a severe gale 
endangered the safety of the Dr. and his grandson, when the Doctor 
oxpressed great alarm for his life. After landing, the former said to 
the latter, "Whv should you be so much afraid of flrowniugV If you 
died you would go right to heaven.' "I know it," he answered, "but I 
don't wont to go to heaven by water." 

Tradition attributes to Huntting Miller the saying 'Nobody was ever 
married, but somebody was mad, ' and "Nobody ever died, but some- 
body was glad." 

When Jeremiah Dayton, driving stage, offered to give Sam Parsons a 
ride homeward, Sam replied, "I can't stop. Im in a hurry."' 

When some one wondered how Bob Hedges got the credit of keeping 
the stillest school in the County, Bob said, "I had but one scholar, and 
he was asleep." 

When East-Hampton was rocked as in a sea over the question "shall 
an exhibition be held in Clinton Academy?" it was decided against the 
ominous forebodings of the old, that it be held. On the early morning 
of the next day, tradition tells of a territic hurricane, that blew off the 
roofs from houses, broke off gigantic limbs, overthrew majestic trees, 
drove the waves of mighty ocean into Hook Pond, and joined it with 
Town Pond. Looking from her window on the wide desolation, and 
the raging storm, an old maiden lady said, "This is some of that 
plaguey 'Cademy work." 

The Inspectors of Election in early times, sat to receive votes in the 
villages, and for that purpose were at Wainscott, when Abraham Par- 
sons, Esq., one of the board, enquired after a missing beast, describing 
age, color and mark, when John Strong, an old Revolutionary soldier, 
said, "Yes, I know such a critter; Continental has got him." "Who is 
he !" said the Esquire. Strong replied, •■EUshaOsborn." "Why do you 
call him Continental?" was asked, and was answered, "Because he is 
just like Continental money ; he is good for notnlng." There were two 
Elisha Osborns, one of whom in the Revolution fled to Connecticut (the 
continent), and to distinguish them was called "Continental." He was 
a worthy man, and brother-in-law to John Strong. 

East-Hampton was a world iu miniature. Her citizens had troubles, 
real or imaginary. The old lady to whom one said, "I suppose you 
have no troubles," replied, "Yes, I do. In spite of me, the black hen 
will set on the white hen's nest." 

It was Ji bitter cold nittht, when Dr. Geo. L. Huntington found Sam. 
Parsons In the street overcome with liquor, and took him in his car- 
riage to Sam's front gate, pointing him to the door and in a fair way to 
reach it. As the Doctor was leaving, Sam says, "Doctor stop." The 
Doctor says, "What is it?" Sam, just able to articulate, savs, "Doctor, 
do you think you are sober enough to get home without my help ?" 
Poor Sam ! With ability to attain eminence, one weakness made him a 
wreck. 

Mrs. Helen Stratton relates this of Abel Huntington, when in Oon- 
gress. Having occasion to visit the room of a member from Connecti- 
cut, who had therefrom a barrel of apples, (none of which he had given 



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to his follow intMiihcrs) lie s;i\v n larjio oiin ou iho table. He cut ofY tlie 
top, scoope<l out. all the iniiei- part, inserting in the hole this squil) : 
"In Afianfs fall we sinned all." — Old Frimcr. 

Full \v(-ll I know that tliou did'st grapple, 
Oil, Alother Eve, the fatal apple. 
As thou didst, so thy ehiidren feel, 
A strange propeusity to steal. 
When good things teini)t the sensual e3e. 
Though but to taste is soon to die. 
Thou mightst have played more cautious game, 
And "scaped both penalty and shame, 
For hadst thou like a Yankee sly, 
Scooped out tilt,' substance at the eye, 
And left the outsid(> fair and slick. 
None e'er had guessed who did the trick.'" 
The owner of the apple, the next day, opened the dooi of the Doctor"s 
room and threw the scooped apple at his room mate, not dreaming 
that the Doctor was from the State of Connecticut and the guilty one. 

In the memories of my youth, the robust form of chorister Joe Dinion 
often lises up. I Jieai- his i>itch pipe, reauMuber iiow he called "Wind- 
ham,"" and sung the fearful lines commencing : 

"Broad is the road that leads to death. 
And thousands walk together there. 
But wi-dom shows a narrow path. 
With here and there a travellei-."' 
It seemed then, and seems now, as if the theological sieve of Dr. 
"Watts was exceeding tine, yet not much more so than that of the old 
egotist who said, "There are but two men in East-Hampton who will 
not lie; I am one, and Dr. Buell is the other; and Dr. Buell will 
ecjuivocate."" 



A list of those who served, by laud or S(!a, in the war for the main- 
tenance of the Union of the United States, from the Town of East- 
Hampton, compiled chiefly by the aid of Clothier H. Vaughn and Geo. 
C. Morris : 

Arch, Nathan E.. 5.5th Mass. Conkling, Henry T. Co. H. Slst N.Y. 

Bailey. Wm. B., Co. K, 127th N. Y. Conkling, "Wm. 
Baker, David J., Co. A Marine Art. (Jook, John C. 

/ Co. E, 1st N. Y. Cooper, James H., Slst N. Y. 

(Light Artilery. Corwin, J. L. 



Baker, Henry L., 

Bennett, Andrew J., Co. H. N. Y. 

Bennett, Augustus P. Co. K 127 N.Y. 

Bennett, Geo. E., 11th N. Y. Cav. 

Bennett, Gilbert, Co. E. 

Bennett, John A. 

Bennett, Milton 

Bennett, Myron T. 

Bennett, Nathan 

Bennett, Wm. W. Co. H. 81st N. Y. 

Bene, John Co. H. Slst N. Y. 

Bone. Joseph Slst N. Y. 

Boyenton, John 

Brown, S. E. 

Clark, A. S. 

Colvin, Saml. 127th N. Y. 



CuUum, Eichard 

Dayton, Chas. B., M. D. 127 N. Y. 

Davis, Thomas J., Navy 

Edwards, Edward H. Co. B. si N. Y. 

Farley, James 

I"'arrell, Thomas 

Field, Saml. B. 1st N. Y. Light Art. 

Field, Sylvester 

Filer, Charles W. 1st Conn. Art. 

Filer, Geo. G. Co. H. 81st N. Y. 

Foster, John L. Navy. 

Fowler, Win. Jr. Montauk. 

Gould Alexander. Co. H. Slst N. Y. 

(iould, Theodore P. Co. K. 127 N. Y. 

Green, Charles H. 



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Hall, Wni. Co. H. 81ct N. Y. 
Handy, Aaron, 127th N. Y. 
Havens, Chas. 0. Co. H. «1 N. Y. 
Havens, Joseph 
Havens, Joseph A. 
Holland, John, Naw. 
Howell, James L. Co. H. 81 N. Y. 
Howland. J-dson Co. H, 81st N. Y. 
Hudson, C. James 

Sergt. Co. A 11th N. Y. Cav. 
Humphreys, Arthur, Navy. 
King, Edward T. Navy. 
King, Geo. E. Co. E. 11 N. Y. Cav. 
King, Barry B. Co. K 127th N. Y. 
King, H. P. 

King, Lodowick H. Co. I 1.5 N. Y. 
King, Oliver G. Navy. 
King, S. M. 
King, Venus E. Navy. 
King, William 
King, Wilson B. 127 N. Y. 
Knapp, Geo. 81st N. Y. 
Lawrcliee, John B. Navy 
Lawrence, Wm. 127th N. Y. 
Leek, David 

Lester, Geo. B. Co. A, lltli N. Y. 
Lester, G. T. 
Lestei-. W. C. 

Loper, David B. Co. K, 127 X. Y. 
Loper, Geo. !S. 

Loper, Henry J. Co. rf, 81st N. Y. 
Loper. Oliver L Co. F, N. Y. Cav. 
Lowpu William, Navy. 
Lynch, Michael 
Meigs. Edgar C. 81st N. Y. 
Merdiant, Chas. 
Miller, David K. Co. C, IGoth N. Y. 



Miller, E. H. 

Miller, Jonathan A. Naw. 
Miller, Josiah P. Co. K. 127. h N. Y. 
Millei-. Nath'l Co. E. 11 N. Y. Cav. 
Miller. Nath'l J. Co. K 127th N. Y. 
Miller, Wm. B. Co. K, 127th N. Y. 
Mulford, Wm. Na\y. 
Myi^rs, John 11th N. Y. Cav. 
Overton, Theodore Co. K, 127 N. Y. 
Overton, Warren Co. K, 127 N. Y. 
Paddy, William 

Pavne, Albert M. Co. H. 48th N. Y. 
Payn.", Ellas K. Co. K, 127th N. Y. 
Peunv, Joshua. 
Petty. Wm. E, Navy. 
Pharaoh, Stepheii 

Pidgeou, Stephen B. Co. G, 127 N. Y. 
Price, James H. Co. H. 81st N. Y. 
Raisen, Tliomas 
Reuey, John W. Co. H. 81 N. Y. 
Sherrill, David 8. Co. K, 127th N. Y. 
Simons, John, 8th Conn. 
Snooks, John 

Squires, Stephen, 127th N. Y. 
Stanton, Joseph B. Co, H, 81st N. Y. 
*Stanton, Oscar F. Regular Navy 
Stanton, Wm. C. 

Strong, James M. Co. K. 127th N. Y. 
Strong, Charles 
Strong, William 
Terry, David 
Terry. Benjamin 
Tillinghast, Cha.iles T, 
Topping, Edward 
Wright, Isaac 
Wright, Jerry 
— *Now Rear Admiral. 



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(^ENEAboeiy. 



BAKER FAMILY. 

•John Baker, late of Amai^ansett, deceased, contributed material com- 
l)letiug the genealogy of his family from Thomas (1) the first settler in 
East-Hampton, which was published in 1850. Jonathan Baker, Esq., 
Superintendent of Suffolk County Almshouse, has traced his family 
line to the same Thomas (1). The following is; the substance of their 
contributions : A memorandum in an old book made by Nathaniel Bak- 
er (2) states that his father and mother came out of England in 1639, 
before they were married. They were married June 20th, 1643. His 
wife's name was Alice and she died Feb. 4th, 1708, in the 88th year of 
her age. "We know that this Alice was daughter of Kalph Dayton, an- 
other founder of the town of East-Hampton. Her grave stone is in the 
Amagansett burial ground. They had four children. Hannah (2) born 
June 26, 1650; Thomas (2) b. July 26. 1654; Nathaniel (2) b. Dec. 22, 1655 
and Abigail (2). For convenience I run the line down thus : 

Thomas, (Ij b. d. April 30th, 1700, ga 82. 

Nathaniel, (2) b. Dec. 22d. 1655, d. Feb. 27th, 1739, ee 84. 

Daniel, (3) b. August 1st, 1692, d. • 1740, re 48. 

Daniel, (4) b. — d. January 17th, 1753, re — 

Nathaniel, (5) d. March 19th, 1828, re 84. 

Ananias, (6) b. August 27th, 1768. d. April 16th, 1843, re 75. 

John, (7) b. May 1st, 1809, d. Api'il 24th, 1882, re 81. 

John Bakek 7 had w. Phebe, dau. of Henry Chatfield, and they had 
ch. Margarat E. b. July 18th, 1829, who m. Wm. H. Strong; and Kebec- 
ca M. b. Jan. 22d, 1832, who m. Benjamin C Tuthill. 

Nathaniel 2. b. 22d Dec. 6, 1655, d. 27th Feb. 1739, had w. Catharine, 
and they had ch. Jonathan, b. 12th Feb. 1679, d. 4th March, 1748; Joan- 
na 3, b. 7tli July, 1651 : Abigail 3, born 15th March, 1682 : Henry 3, b. 
April 16th, 1686, d. in 2 weeks ; Catharine 3, b. April 4th, 1687 ; Mary, b. 
21st Nov. 1689? Daniel 3, b. Aug. 21st, 1692; Hannah 3, b. 96th Jan. 
1694. Joanna 3, ni. Joseph Ogdeu, of Elizabethtown, N. J. Abigail 3 

m. Daniel Hedges of Sagg in 1702-3. Catharine 3 m. Mulford. 

Mary 3 m. Woodruff. Hannah 3 m. Samuel Pai'aons. Daniel 3 

m. Abigail Osborn. 

Daniel 3 and w. Abigail had ch. Daniel 4, Abraham 4, Nathaniel 4, 
Henry 4, Elizabeth 4, Catharine 4, and Abigail 4. Elizabeth 4 m. Jere- 
miah Stratton. 

Daniel 4 had w. Mary Osborn 1st and 2d Mary wid. of Jeremiah 
Conkling ; had by 1st w. ch. Nathaniel 5, Elizabeth 5 and Polly 5 ; by 2d 
w. had Abigail 5, who m. John Davis. Elizabeth 5 m. Abraham Ed- 
wards of East-Hampton and d. in 1815 in 68th year of her age. Polly 5 
m. Sineus Dibble. An old account book, formerly of Thos. J. Mulford, 
dec'd, contains this record: "East-Hampton, January 17th, 1753. At 
the south side, in coming to the shore in a whale boat, was drowned in 
the surf, these three men here namely : Jacob Schellenger, Daniel Ba- 
ker and Dick. The night before Daniel Baker was drowned, his wife 
dreamed the tide rose bo high that it came up to the house, burst open 



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the door, and brought in a coffin. She requested him not to go off a 
whaling that day ; she said she was afraid some accident would hap- 
pen. He replied, he thought he would go that day, but would not go 
any more." 

Nathaniel Baker 5, son of Daniel 4, had w. Esther Osborn and son 
Nathaniel 6 ; had 2d w. Abigail Conkling and they had ch. Daniel 6, b. 
Feb. 3d, 17G7, d. April 2d, 1847, ee 80; Ananias 6 b. Aug. 27, 1768, d. April 
16, 1843, ft} 74; Marv 6 b. Jan. 13th, 1771, d. March 27th, 1788, ss 17 ; Es- 
ther 6, b. May llth,"^ 1773; Abigail 6, b. March x5th, 1775, d. Sept. 22d, 
1792, SB 17 ; Catharine 6, b. March 30th, 1777; d. Sept. 2d, 1842, se 65 : 
Hannah 6, b. April 22d, 3779; Henry 6, b. July 29lh, 1781, d. Nov. 16th, 
1833, te 52; Sophia 6, b. April 26th, 1784; Elizabeth 6, b. July 20th, 1786. 
Esther 6 m. Henry Conkling of Amagansett. Catharine 6 m. Isaac 
Barnes of the same place. Hannah G m. Jason Sandford of Water Mill. 
Sophia 6 m. Joseph Glover of Southold. Elizabeth 6 m. Uriah Miller 
of East-Hampton. Daniel 6 m. 1st Polly Derby and 2d Mercy Loper. 
Henry 6 m. Betsey Hand, dau. of Jacob Hand. 

Ananias 6, b. Aug. 27th, 1768, had w. Hannah Conkling, dau. Edward 
Conkling and they had ch. Jeremiah 7, b. Sept. 4th, 1796, d. Sept. 22d, 
1826, ee 30; John 7, b. May 1st, 1800, d. April 24th, 1882, se 81; Fanny 7, 
b. Feb. 25th, 1803, who m. David Barnes of -East-Hampton ; Lueretia 7. 
b. Aug. 27th, 1805, d. Oct. 13th, 1811, as 6; George L. b. April 6th, 1808, 
d. Feb. 27th, 1878, ee. 69. The wife of Jeremiah 7, Phebe. became the w. 
of John 7. 

George L. 7 b. April 6th, 1808, had w. Caroline and ch. Jeremiah 8, b. 
Dec. 23d, 1834; William T. 8 b. March 22d, 1846. 

Jeremiah 8, b. Dec. 23d, 1834, had w. Amanda D. dau. of Sylvanus 
Edwards and they have cb. George S. 9 b. Aug, 2d, 1861 and Maristta 
T. 9 b. Feb. 14th, 1867, who m. Chas. W. Eackett, Jr., and t'ley have dau. 
Maud B. Eackett 10, b. Aug. 24th, 1891. 

George S.9b. Aug. 23d, 1861. m. Nettie, dau. of Nathl. Edwards and 
they have dau. Euth 10, b. Mav 23d, 1892. 

William T. 8, b. March 22d^, 1846, had w. Althea B. dau. of Isaac B. 
Edwax'ds, of Amagansett, and they havo ch. J. Whitman 9, b. Feb. 2d, 
1873 ; Nathaniel T. 9, b. July 13^h, 1875 ; Caroline M. 9, b. July 15th, 
1878 ; Ethel M. 9, b. April 1st, 1882. 

Jonathan 3, b. Feb. 12th, 1679, sou of Nathaniel 2, had w. Hannah, 
and they had ch. David 4; Jonathan 4, b. May 22d, 17C4, d. Jan. 14th, 
1777, and Jacob 4, who went to Elizabethtown, N. J., and was there in 
1748. 

Jonathan 4, b. May 22d. 1704, had w. Mary Talmage, b. Dec. 22d, 
1706, d. June 4th, 1781, and they had ch. David' 5, b. Aug. 22d, 1733. d. 
Nov. 3d, 1786: Jonathan 5, b. Oct. 31st, 1734; Mary 5, b. Feb. 20th, 1739; 
Hannah 5, b. July 27th, 1740 ; Thomas 5, b. July 24th, 1742, d. Nov. 27th, 
1825; Temperance 5, b. April 7th, 1744; William 5, b. April 25th, 1746; 
Jacob 5, b. April 1st, 1752. 

David 5, b. Aug. 22d, 1733, had w. Mary Conkling and they had ch. 
Mary 6, b. Dec. 22d, 1757; David 6, b. July 14th, 1760; Jonathan 6, b. 
Feb. 6th, 1766, d. Dec. 23d, 1853 : Esther G, b. Nov. 5th, 17G8, d. April 
23d, 1790; Hamutal 6, b. April 8th, 1774, who m. Jonathan Mulfoid of 
East-Hampton ; David 6, )\ July 14th, 176©, m. Lucinda Hedges, dau. of 
Daniel Hedges, and they had dau. Esther 7, who m. Andrew Eldredge, 
and they had son Andrew 8, who d. sp. 

Jonathan 6, b. Feb. 6th, 1766, had w. Hannah, dau. of Capt. Ezekiel 
Mulford, b. July 11th, 1773, m. Jan. 9th, 1791, and they had ch. Esther 7, 
who m. Edward C. Kogcrs of Sag-Harbor; Maria 7, who m. Harvey 



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Conkline:; David 7 ; Eleanor 7, who m. HeuryOsborn. and Edward M. 7, 
b. 1810, d. Nov. 22d, 185G. 

David 7 had w. Rebecca, dau. of Daniel Osboru, and ch. Maria H who 
m. Abraham Debevoise ; Charles 8 and Edward 8. all of whom were m. 
and some of them have ch. 

Mary Rose Roj^ers. of Sag-Harbor, is dau. of Edward C. Rogers and 
grand-daughter of Edward ('. Rogers and Esther Baker 7. Wm. Conk- 
ling of Amagansett is son of Harvey Coukling and Maria 7 his wife. 
Hannah, dau. Heniy Osliorn and Eleanor 7 his wife, m. Capt. Ezekiel 
Howes and has dau. who m. Henry Hedges. 

Capt. Edwakd M. 7 m. Rosalie dau. (leu. Jeiemiah Miller, and they 
had ch. Edwai-d M. 8, b. Maich lltn, 18-ii», and Jonathan 8. )>. July 10th. 
1853, both now living and hiarried. 

Note. — Capt. Edward M. was master manner sailing from Sag-Har- 
Harbor. He commanded the whale ship Daniel Webster, and made 
several eminently suceessful voyages as her captain. He was capable, 
faithful, thoroughly iionest, persevering, humane, thoughtful ; a nuiu 
of deeds and not of words. H. P. H. 

THE BARNES FAMILY. 

In the visitation of NorfoAc, England, IGO-l, is a pedigree of four gen- 
erations of the Barnes family, viz : Edward and Thomas sons of William, 
brother of Owen and Charles, sous of William, son of Edward, of So- 
ham County, Cambi-idge. Eastwick County, Nt)rfolk, and Lynn regis Co. 
Dorset. Tliis family liad a coat of arms recorded in College of Arms, 
London. In addition to the material furnished by David Barnes, deed., 
J. Henry Barnes has given the following record of the ancient and hon- 
orable family whose name he ])ears. 

1. WiLT^iAM. (See Howell's History of Southampton, |). 2ns, i 

2. William, — d. Dec. 1st, 1098. 

3. William, d. Aug. 2Gth, 1700. 

i. William, b. Jan. 17th, 1702, d. March 30th, 1720, a- 24. 
5. William, b. Aug. loth, 1723, d. July 3d, 1814, tv 91. 
0. David, b. May yth. 1703, d. June M", 1809, a- 40. 

7. David, b. Dec. 13th, 1795, d. Juno 25th, 1800, iv 70. 

8. Chakles J., b. Aug. 0th, 1834. 

9. David W.. b. April 7tli, 1807. 

10. Robert G., b. October 2oth, 1.S94. 

The 2d William m. Elizabeth , she died in 1723, te 80. Their 

children were Thomas 3, Benjamin 3, Stephen 3, Isaac 3, Matthew 3, 
Nathaniels, Samuel 3, Recompense 3, William 3, Mary 3, and Eliza- 
betn 3. Benjamin 3 and Stei)lieii 3 rc^moved with their children to 
Brauford, Conn., early in 1700. Thomas 3 and Samuel 3 also removed. 
Matthew 3 died in 1703 and left one son Matthew 4. Recompense 3 and 
Nathaniel 3 died childless. Isaac 3 married Aiuui dau. of Noah Rod- 
gers. of Branford, Conn. (See Aina.gansett branch of Barnes family.) 

The 3d William m. Mary Rodgers, his brother Isaac's 3 wife's sister. 
Their childreu were Mary 4, William 4, Noah 4, and Elizabeth 4. Noah 4 
m. Hannah Parsons. 

The 4th William m. Martha Edwards Oct. 121 1722, and had childreu 
William 5, b. Aug. 10, 1723 ; Martha 5, b. March 4, 1725, and Joseph 5 
b. Dec. 17, 1720. He died in Lanesboro, Mass. Martha 5, m. Israel 
Wilcox, of Bei'lin, Conn. 

The 5th William m. Jemima Sherril, Dec. 4, 174t;, she d. March 29, 
1823, lo 98, and had children William 0, b. Sei)t. 1747, who m. Lydia 



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Hall, of DurluDU, Conn., and sottled in Riohiuond, Mass. Jemima fi, 
b. Fob. 24, 1749 : Eli (i, b. IT'A, m. Patienco, dau, of Danicd "Wilcox, East 
Borlin, Conn., sottbMl thoro and d. Juno ].">, IMl"); Joroiniah i'>, 1>. ll'S. 
ru. Pholio, flail, of Jonathan and Elizaboth Solndliiig(!r, ol' Aiuagaiisett. 
Juno '2(1, 17(U, ami romovod to riattsbvirji, N. Y.. d. Au.k. 24. IHM) : Jos- 
oph G. b. IT:")!!, m. Elizabetli Conklin ; Noali i'>, b. ]7i'>-"). d. uiiiiiaiTied Sept. 
ir), 1841 ; and David C. 

Jeremiah Ci had children Jeremiah, Jr. 7, Jonathan 7, Fannie 7, Ma- 
ria 7, Hannah 7, Horace 7. Henry 7, and Betsey 7, all dead and all left 
families except Botsey, who died young. 

Jeremiah, Jr. 7, b. Oct. 19, 17n5, d. Aug. 23, 1879, m. Mary Farns- 
worth Juno 7, 18:51, and had ohildron James F. 8, Phebe M. 8, Jere- 
miah 8 and Charles A. 8. 

James F. 8 b July 4, 1832, m. Susan B. dau. John and Sarah Dickin- 
son, Nov. ."i, 1857, and had children Jeremiah M. 9, b. July 17, 1859; 
James L. 9, b. Aug. 12. 1861; Fannie M. 9, b. Doc. 20, 186.'!. 

Horace 7, son of Jeremiah (J. in. Phebr) Parsons, dau. of David and 
Phebe Parsons, and had children William R. 8, of Granite Falls, Minn; 
Betsey M. fS, now deceased ; Ethylinda L. «, now deceased ; Ann M. 8, 
of East-Hampton : Horace J. 8, of Eau Claire, Wis.; David P. 8. Ann 
M. 8 m. August us Parsons, Oct. 27, 18.59, of East-Hani[)tou, N. Y. 

David (> m. Lucretia dau. Capt. David Fithian, and had children 
Esther 7 wlm m. -1. B. Mulford ; David 7; and Eli 7 who m. Puah Mul- 
ford, of Aniagansott. and reniovinl t<> Mendon, X. Y. 

Edi 7 had cliildr(Mi Orlando 8. Hannah M. -s, Algernon 8, Eli s, and 
Samuel s. Orlando m. and has child Hendrick. 

David 7 m. Fannv, dau. Annanias Bakor. D(>c. 1820, and had childron 
William D. 8, b. Juno 2, 1823; Eli F. 8, b. Sei)t. 28. 1825; Hannah Ett X, 
b. Dec. 31, 1828: George B. 8, b. Oct. 30, 1830; Charles J. 8, b. Aug. Gth, 
1834; and Cordelia L. 8, b. April 11, 1840. Tiie first three died unmar- 
ried. George B. 8 m. Fanny dau. J. Dayton Hedges, Dec. 27, 18(i5 and 
d. Sept. 2G, 1892. iv (i2. and iiad cliildreu Fanny B. 9, b. Nov. IBGG, who 
m. Grant Backett of EaSt Marion, Doc. 24, 189i ; William D. 9, b. Sept. 
1865, m. Florence Birch, dau. of Thomas Birch of Wainscott, Aug. 16th, 
1894; Frederick C. 9 b. March 2(i, 1874, m. Willieimina Kegonsburger, 
July 3, 1893, and Charles H. 9, b. Aug. K), bs79. Cordcdia L. 8 m. Rich- 
ard Ketcham, Juno 10, 1889. 

Charles J. <s ui. Ella A. (bin. E/,ra C. Tuthill, of Shelter Island, Nov. 
14, 1865, and lia<l children David W. 9, b. April 7, 1867, and Harry 9, b. 
Aug. 16, 188(;. 

David W. 9, m. Minnie Irene, dau. Samuel Cately, of Brooklyn, Oct. 
7, 1893, and liad children Robert G. 10, b. Oct. 25, 1S94, and Marjory T. 10, 
0. Oct. 1. 1S95. 

Joseph 6 m. Elizabeth Cnnklin. ilau. Xatlian and Mehitabel Conklin, 
Oct. 1st, 1794; she d. Aug. Oth, islf,, iP 74. and had children Joseph 7, b 
Julv 18, 1795, d. Sept. 13, 1«34. le 39? Nathan C. 7. b. April II, 1798, d. 
March 7, 1861 ; Botsev 7, m. David H. Miller, was b Oct. 11, 1800, d. 
Aug. 2.5, 1864; Joniima" 7, b. Aug. 6, 1806, d. Sept. 22, 1834, a? 28. 

Jo.SF.PH 7 m. Pnebe Miller, June 16, 1818: she d. Aug. 20, 1855, and 
had children Faniuo A. « b. June 14, 1820, d. July 10, 1896: AVm. L. 8, 
D. Sept. 9, 1823, d. Mav 7, isss; Xoaii A. 8, b. Nov. 19, 1828, d. Nov. 25, 
18-57; Phebe E. 8. b. Oct. 17. 1S33, d. Sept. 26, 1853. 

Fannie A. s, m. William Hunttiug. William L. 8, m. Betsey B. Nov. 
23, 1858, dau. of Uiiah and Botsey Miller; she was b. Feb. 5th, 1830 and 
<1. March 23, 18J5; they moved to Goneseo, Henry Co., III., about 1856, 
ami had children William Kelsoy 9 b. at Ea^t-Hanipton May 23, 1855 ; 



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Josoph Uriali 0, b. at Gonosoo, III., March 8, l>i >^; Fanuie Himttiiig '.). 
b. May 7, ISr.O : Honrv Alouzo !», b. May 10, 1804; Nathan xMiller i), b. 
May 13, 18liG : Eugene Burdette 0. b. Nov. a, 1870, d. Oct. i, 1872. 

Joseph U. U, ni. Maiy L. Upson Dec. 2-1, 1880 and had children Bessie 
May 10, Katie Jane 10, Jean Burdette 10, Mildred 10, Bennie 10 and 
Lewis Miller 10. 

Henky 9 m. Gertrude Jenkins, of Alexandria, Minn., Sept. IG, 1891, 
and had child Philip Jameson 10, b. March 80, 1894. 

Nathan Conklin 7 ni. Phebe Miller, dau. ol' Cornelius and Hannah 
Osborne. June 19, 1821; she was b. Jan. 20, 1800 and d. April 7, 1848; 
they had children Mary Osborne 8, b. June 19, 1827 : Joseph Henry 8, b. 
Oct. 3, 1830, ra. Harriet Smith, dau. David and Phebe Barnes, Nov. 11, 
1857 and had son W illiam Henry 9, b. March 27, 18(i0, who m. Jetta dau. 
of William J. and Julia Cook, of New Brunswick, N. J. Dec. 19, 1889, b. 
Jan. 0, 1859, removed to Topeka, Kansas, in 1890, d. Oct. 27, 1893, and 
had children Mary Cook 10, b. April 21, 1891 ; AVilliam Henry 10, b. 
October 18. 1893. 

Jonathan Baknes' (5) Family Kecokd. 

Grandfather Isaac 3 b. 1675, m. Anna dau. Noah Kodgers, of Bran- 
ford, Conn., he d. Aug. 20, 1709. 

Isaac i, b. Jar. 29, 1704, d. April 22, 1772, m. Hannah b. Oct. 25, 

1715, had children Nathaniel 5, b. March IS, 1740 ; Hannah 5, b. March 
22, 1742 ; Matthew 5, b. Nov. 20, 1744; Isaiah 5, b. Jan. 29, 1747, d. Sept. 
29, 1802 ; Anna 5, b. July IS, 1749 ; Jonathan 5, b. March 4, 1752 ; Sarah 5, 
b. Dec. 18, 1754 ; Isaac 5, b. Feb. 5, 1758. 

Jonathan 5 m. Phoebe Talmage, March 2i;, 1776, and had children 
Jonathan 6, b. Dee. 23, 1776; Taimage 6, b. Oct. 20, 1778, d. Dec. 8, 
1778; Marv 6, b. Jan. 11, 1780; Taimage 6, b. July 6, 1782; PhebeO, b. 
Mav 2. 1787; Jeauette 6, b. March 25, 1790; David 6, b. May 21, 1794, d 
Aug. 30, 1868. 

David 6. j'oungest sou of Jonathan 5, and Phebe, m. Pheby dau. of 
Jacob and Betsey Schellenger, who was b. Nov, 26, 1798 and d. Feb. 26, 
1877, and had children Betsey Schellenger 7, b. April 1, 1817, m. Edmund 
T. Strong and d. s. p. Dec. la, 1848; Mary Frances 7, b. March 26, 1829, 
m. Henry P. Osborn ; Harriet Smith 7, b. Oct. 19, 1831, m. Joseph Hen- 
ry Barnes 8, Nov. 11, 1857, see ante. 

TAiiMAGE 6, b. July 6t.h, 1782, d. May 1», 1859, had 1st w. Mary Hedges 
and ch. Althea H. 7, b. March 28, 1816, m." Jeremiah Schellenger and d. 
s. p. July 13, 1836, and Benjamin P. 7, b. July 2i), 1823, d. s. p. April 7, 
1832; had 2d w. Harriet B. Hand, dau. of Mulford Hand, and thev had 
ch. Mary T. 7, b. Dec. 12, 1833, m. Henry L. Van Scoy, Oct. 12th," 1853, 
and have ch. and d. March 14, 1896, and Benjamin H. 7. b. Oct. 22. 1839, 
m. Fannie B. Hand Dec. 26, 1860, and have ch. Anna C. 8, b. Feb. 22, 
1863; Herbert T. 8, b. July 10th, 1867; Lilian M. 8, b. Sept. 12.1871. 
Anna C. 8 m. Chas. B. Canlield June 8, 1887, and they have ch. Stella B. 9 
and Fannie 9. Lillian M. 8 m. Chas. W. Dunn, Dec. 26, 1891. Herbert 
T. 8, m. Helen E. dau. liev. Jas. B. Finch, Dec. 9th, 1889 and have ch. 
Byron T. 9, b. Jan. 16th 1891. Helen L. 9, b. April 10th, 1893, and Ben- 
jamin H. Jr. 9 b. Aug. 4th, 1895. 



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CHATFIELD FA.MILY. 

Mrs. Anna E. Rose, iioe ChiiHuild, has cojiLribntod the following rnc- 
ord of th(! ancient and intoUectual Cliatllold laraily, from which stock in 
East-lLimi)tou hav(s spriin}^ those who in New- York, >few Jersey and 
other States have attained eminence : 

There is a tradition in the Chatfi(!ld family that the father of the 
three brothers, Thomas, Georj^t; and Francis, who first came to Ameri- 
ca, was Henry, of Sussex, Enj^land. Thomas OhatlieJd, the first of 
that name in East-Hampton, had a brother Francis who settled in Guil- 
ford, Conn., and, as far as can be learned, died unmarried. Thomas 
had also a brother Georg.- who settled in Killingworth, Conn. Edward 
Crane Chatfleld, a lawyer, of Minneapolis, and the seventh in descent 
from this George above mentioned, is searching the genealogy of the 
Chatfield family in all its branches. He states that, while finding some 
of the name in nearly (!very State of the Union, he has not been able to 
find any descendants of Thomas except on Long Island. 

The Chatfield Coat of Arms is now owned by John G. Chatfield, of 
Bridge-Hampton, who inherited it from his father, John H., and as far 
as is known it is believed to have been brouglit from England to Con- 
necticut, and then to East-Hampton by the first Thomas Chatfield, an- 
cestor of John. Mr. George 11. Howell, in his history of Southampton 
Town, states that the Chatfield Coat of Arras is on pandiment. This is 
a mistake, as it is painted on an oak slab. It also varies a very little 
from the one Mr. Howell gives in his history. Thomas Chatfield 1 moved 
from Guilford to New Haven where, in 1(J39, he married Ann, d. of llev. 
Francis Higginson. He moved to East-Hampton at a very early date, 
as we find his name on the East-Hampton records as early as 1G51. 

Thomas 1 died before 1G87 ; had ch. Anna 2, b. 1649; Thomas 2, (in 
some papers called Capt. Thomas) b. Ifi52, and John 2, who had w. Mary 
but I know of no child. 

Capt. Thomas 2, b. 1(552, d. March 20, 1712, had son Thomas 3, b. 1680. 

Thomas 3, (called Judge on the East-Hampton records) b. Aug. 25th, 
1680, d. Jan. Vi, 1754, m. Hannah Stratton, who was b. June, 1G87, and 
had ch. Mary 4, b. Sept. 12, 1707, (who Sept. 9, 17;il m. Josepli King, he 
died Nov. fi, 1732, then Mary m. Francis "Peltrow," Sept. 4, 1734. Her 
first ch. Hannah b. Nov. 12, 1735. "Pelltrow" died in Lo.idon, Sept. 14, 
1737. Mary m. 3d Mr. "Gilston,"Feb. 23, 1738. After that marriage she 
had a son b. Dec. 24, 1738, who d. Feb. 21, 1739; dau. xMary \>. Aug. 10, 
1744; dau. Anna b. Aug. 28, 1747). Anna 4 b. Oct. 8, 1709 (who m. Joim 
Mulford, April 1, 1731, liad ch. John b. Feb. 22, 1732; Mary b. April 
10, 1735; Hannali b. Sept. 4, 1736; Phef>e b. June 18, 1739; Jerusha b. 
March 19, 1741 ; a son b. Jan. 16, 1744; Esther b. Nov. 16, 1749j. Thom- 
as 4. b. Sept. 12, 1712; Jonn 4, b. Man.-h 8, 1716. 

Thomas 4, b. SciU. 12. 1712, d. Jan. 1, 1743, m. Nov. 11, 1735, Abigail 
Mulford, had ch. Phebe 5, b. Dec. 25, 1740 ; Elnathau 5, bap. 1742 ; John 4, 
b. March 8, 1716, d. Sept. 24, 1801, m. Dec. 15. 1739, Jane, dau. of Lewis 
Mulford, who was b. 1716, d. 1753, and had ch. Mary 5, b. Sept. 16, 1740; 
John 5, b. Nov. 30, 1741 ; Thomas 5, b. July 9, 1743 ; Hannah 5, b. Jan. 
1, 1745; Lewis 5, b. July 28, 1746; Jane 5, b. June 1, 1748, d. Sept. 29, 
1810; Henry 5, b. Jan. 17, 1750, and Eliziabeth 5, b. Sept. 29, 1751, (who 
married a Kussel and moved to Connecticutj. This complete family 
record of Judge Thomas Chatfield 3 and family was copied from the 
Judge's Bible printed in Oxford, England, in 1725, and now in posses- 
sion of John G. Chatfild, of Bridge-Hampton. 

Henkv 5, b. Jan 17, 175U, d. Jan. 8, 1839, ra. Annie b. 1754, d. 

April 28, 1X02, had ch. Sarah (J, b. 1776, d. April 15, 1783. 



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Thomas 5, b. Dec. 25, 1740, had ch. Thomas 6, bap. 1760; John 6, bap. 
1772; Julianna 6, bap. 1775, in East-Haiupton. 

Capt. Henry 5, b. July S), 1743, had ch. Henry (>, b. 1788, d. 1804, m. 
Rebecca Mulford had ch. Henry M. 7, 1). 1801 ; Phebe 7, b. 1803, d. 1881. 
(Phebe m. John Baker, had cli. Hannah, Francis, Margaret and Rebec- 
ca.) This Henry 6 removed to Plattsburg, N. Y., where I believe he 
died, when his widow and children returned to East-Hamptoc. John (J 
b. 1782. d. June 17, 1837, d. s. p. 

Henky M. 7, b. 1801, d. March 29, 18(57, m. Nancy Havens, had ch. 
Julia A. 8, 1). 1824, and d. Oct. 1895, (she m. Samuel Howell, had ch. \Vm. 
H. 1). Aug. 1849, d. Nov. 20, 1887 ; Elmer E. b. Jan. 11, 1864.) John 8, 
b. Jan. 20, 1826, d. Dec. 26, 1865. m. Esther E. d. of Henry Edwards, 
Oct. 1857, had ch. Anna 9, b. Jan. 11, 18.59, (who m. Stephen E. Rose 
had d. Ernestine, b. March 19, 1880) ; John 9, b. 0(^t. 2, 1861 ; Lydia H. 9, 
b. July 18, 1863 (who m. J. Everett Hand in June, 1888) and Henry Hav- 
ens 9, b. March 17, 1866, be m. Charlotte M. Peterson, had ch. Harry 
E. 10, b. Aug. 19, 1894, d. Oct. 1895. Henry H. 9 is a Counselor at Law 
and he and John 9 reside in Bridge-Hampton, N. Y. 



CONKLING FAMILY. 

The following genealojzy of the Conkling family, abbreviated and ver- 
ified in part, is taken from an article by H. L. Mersereau, published in 
the New-Yoi-k Genealogical and Biographical Record, in the Number 
issued July, 1896, 

Annanias Conklin 1 (or Conkline) and his brother John 1 are noticed 
in "Savage's Genealogical Dictionary," Vol. I, p. 441. Annanias 1 was 
made a freeman at Salem, May 18. 1642. He had ch. bap. Lewis 2, April 
30, 1643; Jacob 2, May 18, 1649; Elizabeth 2, May 18, 1649. He removed 
to East-Hampton in 1650 and his brother John to Southold. (An old 
gravestone: "Here lyeth the body of Capt. John Conkleyue, born in 
Nottinghamshire, Eng., and died at Southold, L. I., Apr. 6, 1694, m 64 
yrs.") There were ch. of Annanias 1 mentioned at East-HampLou, Jer- 
emiah 2, Cornelius 2, Benjamin 2. A daughter w. of Geo. Miller, Hes- 
ter 2, (6| years old when her father died. ) He died Nov. 1657. His sou 
Jeremiah 2 administrator, Nov. 27, 1657, afterwards his son-in-law Geo. 
Miller appointed Jan. 29, 1657 or 8. E. K. R. Vo . I, pp. 116-121. 

Jeremiah 2, son of Annanias 1, b. 1634, d. March 14, 1712, m. 1658, 
Mary b. Aug. 3, 1638, d. June 15, 1727, dau. of Lion Gardiner and had 
ch. Jeremiah, Jr. 3, Cornelius 3, David 3, Lewis 3, Annanias 3, and Ma- 
ry 3, who m. Thos. Mulfora. See E. H. T. R. Vol. Ill, p. 198-326. 

CoKNELius 2 had ch. Cornelius Jr. 3 and William 3, probably. 

Benjamin 2 d. 1709, had w. Hannaii Mulford and ch. John 3 Eliakim 3, 
Benjamin 3, Annanias 3. 

Jekemiah, Jr. 3 m. June 29, 1718, Jane Parsons, d. s. p. His will 
dated Jan. 11, 1732-3, (from N. Y. wills 1732-3, Vol. XII, i.. 212,) mentions 
nephew Elisha son of bro. Cornelius, also Jeremiah son of said Elisha, 
but his adopted son. 

Cornelius 3 had ch. Elisha 4 b. about 1695 ; Martha 4, bap. Aug. 27, 
1700 ; Deborah 4, bap. Aug. 25, 1700 ; Rachel 4, bap. Jan 2, 1703-4 ; Jere- 
miah 4, bap. Dec. 14, 1707 ; Mary 4, bap. March 12, 1710. 

David 3 had ch. David 4 ; Sarah 4, bap. April 21, 1700 ; Patience 4, bap. 
Nov. 3, 1700; Samuel 4, bap. March 3, 1702; Simon 4, bap. March is, 
1704-5; Keziah 4, bap. March 30, 1707; Raciiel 4, Oap. July 10, 1708-9; 
Temperanc(i 4, bap. Aug. 3, 1712; Jane 4, bap. Maridi 2S, 1714. 



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Lewis 3 had ch. Lewis i, bap. Jan. 1«, 1701-2, who m. Oct. 22, 1724, 
Elizabetb Mulford ; Elizabeth 4, bap. April 21, 1700; Esther 4, bap. Sept. 
:i, 1704; Mary 4, bap. April 11. 1708; Mercy 4, bap. May 7, 1710: Isaac 4 
bap. Jan. 25/l713 ; Zerviah 4. bap. Jan. 8, 1716; Cineus 4, bap. Oct. 19, 
1718; Abigail 4, bap. April IG, 1721, in. Oct. 5, 1740, Nathaniel Balvcr. 

Ann.\nias 3, ni. Martlia Stretton and had ch. Margaret 4, bap. Jan. 11 , 
1701-2, who in. May 19, 1720, John Cooper; Jane 4. bap. Jan. 30, 1703-4; 
Mary 4, bap. Oct. 7, 1705; Hannah 4, bap. Sept. 14. 1707, who in. Jona- 
than Hedges; Joseph 4. bap. Nov. 13, 1709; he m. Jan. 14, 1730. Esther 
Jones; Zerviah 4, bap. Dec. 11. 1711; she m. Jan. 8, 1737, Samnel Mul- 
ford ; Martha 4, bap. Dec. 27, 1713 ; Annanias 4, bap. July 15, 1716. 

CoKNF.iiius, Jii. 8 m. March 16, 1715, Deboraii Mulford and had ch. 
Esther 4, bap. Oct. 23, 1715, she m. Jan. 30, 1739-40, Jonathan Mulford ; 
Mary 4, bap. May 26, 1718; Jane 4, bap. Sept. 20. 1720, m. Dec. 25, 1739, 
Thos. Osborn ; Deborah 4, bai). April 28, 1723; Cornelius 4, bap. Feb. 
6, 1726; Elizabeth 4, bap. July 6, 1728-9; Mulford 4, bap. May 14, 1731-2; 
Nathan 4, bap. Sept. 28, 1735. 

William 3, lu. Nov. 26, 1718, Ruth Hedges and had ch. William 4 
bap. Aug. 30, 1719 ; Stephen 4, bap. Sept. 3, 1721 ; Mary 4, bap. Jan. 11, 
1724 ; Abraham 4, bap. June 12, 1726 ; Ruth 4, bap. Dec. 8, 1728 ; Isaac 4, 
bap. Feb. 27, 1731-2; Jacob 4, bap. Aug. 11, 1734; Abigail 4, bap. Jan. 
23, 1736-7 ; Thomas 4, bap. Oct. 14, 173.?. 

John 3 d. 1746, had ch. all bap. as adults, Johu, Jr. 4; Rachel 4, Jan. 
11, 1718-19, who in. Sept. 21. 1721, Daniel Jones; Amy 4, Jan. 11. 1718-19 
who in. Dec. 29, 1720, John Stretton ; Timothy 4. May 30, 1723; Abigail 4 
Nov. 26, 1727, who m. Nov. 22. 1733, Gideon Hedges; Elias 4, Nov. 26. 
1727; Jonathan 4, Aug. 4, 1734, who m. April 17, 1738, Abigail Talmage. 
N. Y. Wills, Vol. XVI, p. 43, John C.mkliu's 3 will Jan. 23, 1739-40 proved 
Aug. 23, 1746, mentions only John, Elius and Jonathan. 

Eliakim 3 had ch. Deborah 4, Sarah 4. .^ , 

Bex.tamin, Jk. 3 had ch. Hannah 4, Frani^\4, Mehitabel 4. 

Annanias 3 m. Hannah and had Bethiah 4, bap. Jan. 1, 1701, who m. 
May 27, 1731, Joseph Hicks: Henry 4, bap. Feb. 22, 1701-2, who m. May 
5, 1724, Mary Jones; Nathan 4, uap. Jan. 27, 1705-6, m. Oct. 6, 1732, 
Phebe Parsons: Annanias 4 bap. Aug. 15. 1708, m. Feb. 5, 1732-3, Mary 
Miller; Samuel 4, bap. Jan. 27, 1711, m. March 12, 1723-4, Clemens Par- 
sons, he d. 1726 ; Lemuel 4, bap. April 5, 1713; Benjamin 4, bap. Dec. 
11, 1715, m. March 17, 1739-40, Sarah Parsons; Hannah 4, bap. Dec. 11, 
1715, in. March 7, 1736-7, Isaac Barnes; Daniel 4, bap. Feb. 16, 1718 ; 
Josiah 4, bap. July 23, 1721. N. Y. Wills Vol. XIII, p. 568, mentions all 
except Samuel who d. before his father. Will proved Aug. 26, 1740, son 
Nathan, executor. 

Elisha 4, b. about 1695, m. Jau. 1, 1717-18, Esther Parsons aud had 
ch. Elisha 5, bap. May 1, 1720; Jeremiah 5, bap. March 11, 1722; Nath- 
an 5, bap. April 5, 1724; Jacob 5, bap. Sept. 11, 1726; Esther 5, bap. May 
18, 1728-9; Lucretia 5, bap. May 26, 1731-2; Mary 5, bap. Jan. 12, 1731-5; 
Mehitabel 5 bap. May 22, 1737 ; Eliazur 5, bap. March 22, 1740-1. 

David, Jr. 4, m. Dec. 8. 1720, widow Hannah Mulford aud had ch. 
David 5, bap. Oct. 8. 1721; Simon 5, bap. March 1, 1724; Samuel 5, bap. 
Feb. 19, 1726; Hannah 5, bap. Oct. 5, 1728; Zebulou 5, bap. Dec. 3, 1732; 
Sarali 5, bap March 30, 1735. 

CiNRUs4, bap. Oct. 19, 1718, had ch. Isaac 5, bap. June 2, 1717; Ben- 
jamin 5, and possibly others. 

Joseph 4, bap. Nov. 13, 1709, m. Jan. 14, 1730, Esther Jones, aud had 
ch. Hannah 5, bap. Oct. 24, 1731; Elizabeth 5, bap. Jan. 2b, 1732-3; Es- 



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ther 5, bap. Sept. 14, 1735; AnnaniJis 5, bap. July 24, 1737 ; -Tosoph S. 5, 
bap. May 6, 1739 ; Edward 5, bap. Sept. 29, 1745. 

John. Je. 4, m. 1st Dec. 17, 1717, Dorcas Murdock and had ch. Dor- 
cas 5, bap. Oct. 12, 1718; Abigail r^ bap. June 12, 1720; Mary 5, bap. 

Feb. 11, 1722 ; John 5, bap. Aug. 25, 1723 ; 2d m. had ch. Melyan 5, 

bap. Aug. 25, 1727 ; Jonathan 5, bap. March 14, 1730-1 ; Daniel 5, bap. 
Jan. 11, J735. 

Elias 4, bap, as an adult Nov. 26, 1727, had ch. Elizabeth 5, bap. Oct. 
31, 173G; Elias 5, bap. June 18, 1738; Lois 5, bap. July 6, 1740; Christo- 
pher 5, bap. July 18, 1742; Mary 5, bap. Dec. 29, 1745. 

Henky 4, bap. Fob. 22, 1701-2, m. Nov. 5, 1724, Mary Jones and had 
ch. Henry 5, bap. Nov. 28, 1725; Jedediah 5, bap. Sept. 24, 1727; .Jane 5. 
bap. D<>c G, 1730; Edward 5, bap. Aug. 27. 1732; Mary 5, bap. Dec. 22, 
1734 ; Daniel 5, bap. April 24, 1737 ; Lucretia 5, bap. May 6, 1739 ; Eliza- 
beth 5, ba|). July 11, 1742; Hannah 5, bap. Nov 11, 1744. 

Nathan 4, bap. Jan. 27, 1705-(i, m. Oct. 6, 1732, Phebe Parsons and had 
ch. Phebe 5, bap. May 0, 1733 ; Nathan 5, bap. Dec. 19, 1736 ; Jesse 5, 
bap. April 15. 1739. 

Lemuel 4, bap. April 5, 1713, had ch. Lemuel 5, bap. Sept. 24, 1738; 
Phebe 5, bap. June 1, 1740 ; Nathaniel 5, bap. April 10, 1743 ; Higgins 5, 
bap. May 11, 1746. 

Ben.tamin 5, m. Esther Hand and had ch. Cineus 6, Alfred 6, Nathan- 
iel 6, Betsey 6, Phebe 6. 

Daniel 5, of Rensselaerville, b. at East-Hampton April 24, 1737, d. at 

Eensselaerville Sept. 25,. 1816, m. 1st Abigail Parsons and had ch. Dan- 

\- iel 6, b. July 19, 1765 ; Josiah 6, b. 1770 ; Mary 6, who m. Daniel Dayton ; 

^ Henry 6, Abigail 6. He m. 2d Hannah Hutchinson and had by her ch. 

Samuel 6, b. Sei)t. 5, 1789, d. Nov. 10, 1818,; John T. 6, b. April 2, 1792; 

Clarissa 6, b. June 14. 1795, d. Dec. 3, 1821, she m. Thos. L. Loyd. 

Revolutionary war records at Washington show that Daniel Conklin 
served as a private in Capt. Edward Duuscombe's Co. of the 4th N. Y. 
Reg. commanded by Lieut. Col. Frederick AVissenf(^s ; also designated 
as Capt. Wm. Jackson's Co. of same Reg., also as Capt. BenJ. Marvin's 
Co. 1st N. Y. Reg. His name also appears on the roil Nov. 21 to Sept. 5, 
1777 and on the toUowing rolls to Dec. 1780, with remarks "Appointed 
corporal Dec. 1, 1778." N. Y. State Rev. Archives state he was made 
ensign Sept. 13, 1775, of 4th Co. 2d Bat. Suff. Co, 

Alfked 6, sou of Benjamin 5, b. Oct. 12, 1789, d. Feb. 5, 1874, m. 
Eliza Cockburn ; one of their ch. was Roscoe Conkling, U. S. Senator. 

Daniel 6, of Rennsselaerville. b, at East-Hampton July 19, 1765, d. 
Rensselaerville Jan, 27, 1833, m. Feb. 16, 1796, Isabella Lusk, dau. of 
Thos. Lusk, of Stockbridge, b. Feb. 19, 1771, d. April 18, 1846, and had 
ch. Juliana 7, b. May 6, 1792, m. April 30, 1815, Henry Stone, and d. Aug. 
24. 1863: Daniel 7. b. Jan. 9, 1794. d. Jan. 15, 1871, m. Harriet Hubbel, 
of Bennington ; Thomas L. 7, b. Oct. 9, 1796, d. Jane 1,1852, m. Frances 
M. Hackle^y ; George 7 d. young; Herod 7, b. April 28, 180», d. March 18, 
1847, m. Wealthy Hubbs ; George C. 7 d. young; Gurdon 7, b. Sept. 1, 
1803, d. May 8, 1874, m. Caroline Tremaine ; David 7, b. Jan. 7, 1806, d. 
Dec. 26, 1881, m. 1st Almira A. Watson, 2d Caroline A. Clark ; Albert 7, 
b. Jan. 11, 1808, d. Dec. 3, 1878, m. l«t Harriet Hills, 2d Amelia Mills, 3d 
Sarah Ann Palmer; Isabella 7, b. July 9, 1809, d. April 11, 1874, m. John 
S. Huyck ; Abigail 7, b. March 25, 1811, d. July 13, 1876, m. William F. 
Bulkley ; Elizabeth 7, b. Nov. 11, 1812, d. June 21, 1833; Margaret 7 d. 
young. 

Josiah 6 of Eenssellaerville, b. 1770, d. May 8, 1835, m. Patty 



and had ch. Judsou 7, who m. Almyra Moore ; Mary 7 and Marcus 7. 



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Henky 6, of Johnstown, N. Y., had w. Dayton or Hutchinson, 

and ch. Edwin 7, Cornelia 7. Maria 7, Harriet 7. 

John T. 6, of Renssellaerville, b. at East-Hampton April 2, 1792, d. at 
Eenssellaerville Oct. 10. 1875, m. 1820 Tiiza Stone, b. 1800, d. July 18, 
1893, and had ch. Samuel H. 7, b. 1823; C. Amanda 7, b. 1825, m. t). S. 
Miller; Clifford A. 7, b. 1826; Theoren 7, b. 1830; Elizabeth S. 7, b. 1832 
m. William Felter. 

DAYTON FAMILY. 

The genealogy of this family has been compiled largely from material 
in Howell's History of Southampton, with additions by Edwai'd Day- 
ton 8 and his son Josiali 9, of East-Hampton. The family has generally 
a gooa record for intelligence, industry, puritj' and worth. Many have 
achieved eminence. The famous Dayton familj^ of New Jersey is said 
to be from this East-Hampton stock. Howell has named no coat of 
arms of the family. But the name of Capt. John Dayton, of Revolu- 
tionary days, is a symbol of living power before whose grandeur a coat 
of arms, bought or uubought, is but an idle toy. (See ante, pp. 35, 6, 7.) 

Ralph 1, b.l588, d. 1658, had ch. Robert 2, Samuel 3'. 

EoBEKT 2, b. 1628, d. April 16, 1712, had ch. Elizabeth 3, w. of 

Leek ; Samuel 3, b. 1665 ; Beriah 3, b. 167i. 

Saml'el 3, d. Jan. 30, 1746, had w. Dorothy and ch. Robert 4, b. 1692; 

Daniel 4 ; Joana 4, w. of Serle ; Nathan 4, b. 1699 : Jonathan 4, bap. 

1701 ; Samuel 4, bap. 1707 ; Elizabeth 4, w. of William Osborne. 

Robert 4, d. Sept. 28, 1722, hadfch. Hannah 5, bap. 1701 ; Mary 5, 
bap. 1701 ; John 5, bap. 1702.";i 

Dakiel 4, d. 1763, m. 1st Deborah Brown Jan. 8, 1717, she d. Nov. 6, 
1717, leaving son Henry, bap: Oct. 19, 1718, and he m. 2d Mary Parsons, 
Nov. 9, 1720, and had ch. Deborah 5 ; Hannah 5 ; Daniel 5, bap. 1723 ; 

Samuel 5 ; Jonathan 5, bap. 1727 ; Mary 5, bap. 1733, w. of Mulford 

who had ch. Mary, Jonathan and Nathan Mulford. 

Henet 5, m. Dec. 4, 1738, Hannah JEajsons and had ch. Deborah 6, 
bap. 1739 ; Hannah 6, bap. 1743 ; Samnelj6, and Henry 6, bap. Jaa. 1747, 
name unrecoi'ded. — ' 

There was a James b. in 1709 on Long Island who wrote of his father 
and grandfather there as being named Henry. The first Henry 5, son 
of Daniel 4 must have been his grandfather and the second Henry 6, 
son of Henry 5, his father, and the line runs thus : 

Henky 5, Henry 6, bap. Jan. 1747. 

James 7, b. in 1769, had w. Lucinda Morey in Oxford, Grafton Co., 
N. H. and d. in 1854 ee 85, and had 9 ch. Daniel 8 one of them b. in 1806, 
removed to South Bend, lud., and d. there in 1889 se 83. 

Daniel 8, b. in 1806, d. in 1889, had son J. H. 9, now of South Bend, 
Ind. 

Deacon Daniel 5, bap. 1723, m. Rachel Miller and had ch. Jonathan 6 
bap. 1764 ; Miller 6, bap. 1766. 

Jonathan 6, d. 1842, had son Daniel 7. 

Daniel 7 had son Dr. Charles B. 8 who m. Mary Jessup and d. s. p. 
Aug. 17, 1886. 

Miller 6 d. 1847, had son Ralph 7, and Mary 7, m. Rockwell, 

who d. s. p. 

Samuel 5 had dau. Mary 6 w. of Jonathan Stratton. 

Nathan 4 b. 169^, d. 1764, m. Amy Stratton, Nov. 11, 1725, and had 
ch. Samuel 5, bap. 1726; Nathan 5, bap. 1728; Amy 5, bap. 1730; Eliza- 
beth 5 ; Abraham 5, bap. 1735 ; Joanna 5, bap, 1737 ; Abraham 5, bap, 
1740 ; Jonathan 5, bap. 1747. 



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Nathan 5 d. 1764, m. Phebe Mulford, June 27, 1751, and had ch. Na- 
than B, bap. 1754; Jonathan 6, Samuel 6, Elizabeth C^: Mary 6 bap. 1763; 
Abraham 6, bap. 1766 ; Elias M. 6, bap. 1769 ; Joanna 6. 

Nathan 6 had ch. Hannah 7, bap. 1779; Phebe 7. liap. 1783; Samuel 
H. 7, bap. 1790; Lewis Mulford 7 (of Eensselaerville, N. Y. and d. in 
Jersey City at residence of his son. May 8, 1876. sb 83.) 

Samuel H. 7 had son 3 esse C. 8 of Troy, N. Y. who was State Senator 
in 1875. 

Akeaham (■) (1. Nov. 1825 at Middle Granville, N. Y., m. Desire Delight 
Vail, and had ch. Mulford 7, b. 1795 ; May 7, b. 1797, d. 1815 ; Desire 7, 
b. 1800, d. 1822; Hiram 7, b. 1800; Maxilla 7, b. 1804, d. 1847, w. of A. 
Alford. 

Mulford 7d. Feb. 14, 183(), m.Roxanna Hitchcock, Feb. 14. 1817, had 
ch. Mary Helen 8, b March 31, 1820: Jane E 8. b. Feb. 24, 1824. (w. of 
Eev. David B. Hall); James Mulford )s, b. Nov. 9, 1826 and d. Oct. 9, 
1863; Sarah Maria 8, b. Feb. 9, 1833, w. of Silas Hall of Granville, N. Y. 

Hiram 7 of Madrid, N. Y. d. Mav 1, 1849, m. Maria Underwood, and 
had ch. Edwin A. 8, b. 1825, d. 1873; Col. Lewis Mulford 8, of Cincinnati 

Ohio; Desire Delight 8; Harriet 8, w. of Henry; and Henry 8, of 

Richmond, Va. 

Elias M. 6, of Middle Granville. N. Y. removed to Lock-port, N. Y. d. 
Nov. 9, 1839, m. Ruth Higgins, of Haddam, Ct. and had ch. Jonathan 7, 
b. 1791. d. 1857; Elias 7, b. 1793; Natha^i 7, b. Aug. 10, 1794; Abraham 7 
b. 1796; Cornelia M. 7, b. 1800, w. of J. L. Wopds ; Russell A. 7, b. 1804; 
Minerva M. 7, b. 1810. 

Elias 7, d. at Lockport, m. 1820, Sarah Wright, and had ch. Ursula 
Webb 8, b. 1826, d. 1859, w, of Allen C. Wright; Russell Mulford «, b. 
1830 ; Cornelia M. 8, 1). 1835. w. of Joseph Christv- 

Judge Nathan 7, of Lockport, d. April 26, ls.-)9, m. 1st 1823, Sarah T. 
Boise; 2d her sister Hannah E. and had ch. Harriet \I. 8. b. 182';; Sa- 
rah J. 8, b. 1830; Nathan 8, b. and d. 1833; Chas. N. 8, b. 1845. d. 1880; 
Francis M. 8, b. and d. 1848. 

Abraham 7 m. Harriet B. Tavlor and had ch. Chas. H. 8 ; RoUiu W. 8, 
Jane M. 8, Lydia A. 8, Julia 8. Nathan 8. 

•Russell A. 7, d. 1840, m. Julia T. Burrows and had son Edwin A. 8, 
of Chicago, 111. 

Jonathan 4, bap. 1701, had d. Joaua 5, w. of Mulford. 

Beriah 3, of Pantigo, E. H. b. 1674, d. April 30, 1746, had w. Jane and 
ch. Rachel 4. b. 1700; John 4, bap. 170); Martha 4, bap. 1702, wife of — 
Brown; Mary 4, (or Maria) w. of Cornelius Conkling; Beriali 4, bap. 

1709; Esther 4, w. of Brown; Jeremiah 4, bap. 1716; Jane 4, bap. 

1720 ; Mary 4, bap. 1722. 

John 4, b. 1700, d. 1776, m. 1st Joana Parsons, March 2, 1721 ; 2d Abi- 
gail Parsons, June 8, 1754, and had ch. Joana 5, Uap. 1722, w. of Seth 
Parsons ; Elizabeth 5. bap. 1725 ; Phebe 5, bap. 1727 ; John 5, bap. 1727, 
and Martha 5, bap. 1734. 

Capt. John 5, b. 1728, d. Feb. 19, 1825, m. Sept. 1751, Mary Mulford, 
and had ch. John 6, David 6, and Josiah 6, b. 17<;6. 

John 6 had ch. John 7. bap. March 1787 ; Samuel Strattou 7. bap. Jau. 
6, 1789. 

Samuel S. 7 had ch. David 8, John H. 8 and Elizabetti 8. 

Josiah 6, b. 1766, d. 1839, had ch. John Thomas 7, b. 1795 and Josiah 7 
b. 1797. 

John T. 7 m. Cynthia Hand, of Durham, Greene C, N. Y.. and had 
ch. Edward 8, b. 1822, and John 8, b. 1823. 

Edward « m. Elizabeth, b. 1824, dau. of Stephen Hedges, and has ch. 



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Rosalie 9, b. 1846; Edward H. 9 b. 1855; Nathan II. 9, b. 1858; Josiah 9, 
b. 1860; Nellie C. 9, b. 1H()5. Eosalie 9 m. David Sherrill. 

Edwakd 9 m. Hattie, dau. of Henry L. VanScoy, and has ch. Freder- 
ick V. 8. 10, b. 1881, and Alice M. 10. "" 

Nathan H. 9 m. Nellie, dau. of David Ilallock of Bridge-Hampton, 
and has ch. John H. 10, b. 1880, and Laura A. 10, b. 18M3. 

Josiah 9 m. Mary E. chvu. Jeremiah Hunttiug, and has ch. Ralph H. 10 
b. 18.S3; Edward T. 10, b. 1885; Amy E. 10, b. 1887 ; Joanna H. 10, b. 
1889; Robert J. 10, b. 1892; Rosalie 10, b. 1896. 

Nellie C. 9, m. Ulysses Payne, and has ch. Bessie D. 10, b. 1883; 
Edward M. 10, b. 1885 ; Nathan Elias 10, b. 1886. 

'^ John 8 m. Elizabeth d. of Nathaniel Huntting and had ch. Elizabeth 
H. 9, b. 1851, and Mary H. 9, b. 1852. 

Josiah 7 b. 1797, d. 1859, ni. Abbie d. of Abraham Hand, and had ch. 
Charles R. 8, b. 1N29 ; Jane -S, b. 1833 ; Kate H. 8, b. 1837 ; Julia C. 8, b. 
1839. 

Charles R. 8 b. 1829 ni. Sarah d. of Hiram Sherrill and has s. Charles 
S. 9, b. 1859. 

Charles S. 9 m. Minnie E. Averiil, of Plattsburg, N. Y., and has dau. 
Grace Piatt 10, b. 1888. 

Jeremiah 4 b. 171,6, m. Mary dau. of Cornelius Conkling, Dec. 29, 1742 
and had ch. Jcrenvah 5, bap. 1745 ; Mary 5, bap. 1746, and- Elizabeth 5, 
bap. 1752. 

Jeremiah 5 had ch. Hervcy 6, bap. 1786 ; Jeremiah 6, Polly 6, Phebe 6, 
Jane 6, Mary 6, (Phebe m. Eli Parsons of North West and had ch.) the 
other throe daus. d. s. p. 

Jeremiah 6 had ch. Henry 7, b. 1810 ; Jeremiah 7, b. 1817 ; Phebe 7, b. 
1813 ; and Abraham 7, b. 1820. 
-^Teremiah 7 has dau. Mary 8, w. of Lyman Babcock. 

Abraham 7 m. Rebecca dau. Ellis Parsons and had ch. Abraham 8, 
Ellis Parsons 8, and Phebe H. 

Abraham 8 had son Alexander. 

Beriah 4, bap. 1719, liad ch David 5, bap. 1731 ; Jesse 5, bap. 1735 ; 
Mary bap. 1741. 

Jesse 5 had w. Hannah and ch. Susanna ('>, Jacob 6, David 6; Jane 6, 
bap. 1764; Martha 6, bap. 1768; Hannah 6, 1761, and Jasper 6. 

This completes the record, so far as I have it, of the descendants of 
Robert 2, the oldest son of lirst settler Ralph 1. 

His second son Samuel 2 remained in Southampton for a while, resid- 
ing at North S»!a, then removed to Brookhaven, L. I., where he died in 
16iJ0. He had w. Wilhelmiua and ch. Ralph 3; Jacob 3, b. about 1657, 
and removed to Mew Jersey; Caleb 3, b. about 1659,. and d. in South- 
ampton 1688, and Isaac 3. 

Isaac 3 removed to Setauket, afterwards to New Haven, where he m. 
Rebecca Tuttle, Sept. 10, 1664, and d. betw^i^en 1715 and 1722. He had 
ch Isaac 4. Hezekiah 4, b. 1710; .Jouathah 4, b. about 1715: Mary 4, 
Charity 4, and Sarah 4. 

Isaac 4 m. Elizabeth dau. of Michael Todd and had ch. Elizabeth 5, 
b. Sept. 25, 1711; Rebecca 5, b. April 12, 1713; Israels, b. Match 12, 
1715: Sarah 5, b. July 27, 1716: Hauuah 5, b. Aug. 4, 171<S : Isaac 5, b. 
Aug. 30, 1720; Michael 5, b. June 4, 1722; Deborahs, b. Aug. 8, 1724; 
Jonathan 5, b. Jan. 31, 1727; Charity 5, b. Sept. 29, 173IJ, and Giles 5, b. 
Feb. 20, 1731-2. 

Israel 5 m. Dinah Bishop and liad ch. Jehial 6, b, Dec. 22, 1737, Is- 
rael 6, b. March 30, 1744, Dinah 6, b. 1746, and Samuel b. Dec. 19, IT-'jO^ 

Israel 6 had ch. James Z. 7 and Sherman 7, twiiis, b. 1791, &, Giles 7. 




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Samuel 6 had son Samuel 7, b. 1777. 

Isaac 5, of Newport, R. I. had w. Mary and cb. Isaac (>, b. 1753 ; Ben- 
edict 6, Henry 6, Hezekiah G, Samuel (i, of Salisbury, N. C, and Eliza- 
beth 6. 

Isaac 6, m. 1774, Sarah Irish, of Hudson, N. Y. m. 2d 1783, Matilda 
Gardiner and had ch. Isaac 7 ; John 7, b. May 25, 1777 ; Charles 7, b. Mav 
10, 1779 ; Giles 7. of Hudson, b. 1780 : Samuel 7, b. June 2, 1784 : Sarah 7, 
b, 1787: Benjamin 7, b. Feb. 17, 1791; Edward 7. b. Feb. 17, 1793; Hen- 
ry 7, b. Aug. 8, 1795, of Chautauqua, N, Y. ; Matilda 7 and Gilbert 7. 

Chakles 7, d. 1809, m. Harriet Jackson and had ch. Harriet 8, Caro- 
line 8, and Charles 8, b. July 8, 1808. 

Chables 8 had ch Joseph D. 9, b. Oct. 12. 1832, of Brooklyn : Charles 
A. y and Mary E. 9, b. April 13, 1837. 

Samuel 7 had son William 8. 

William 8 m. Caroline, sister of the poet Alfred B. Street and had 
dau. Ida 9, w. of Prof. Wm. G. Peck of N. Y. City. 

Edward 7 m. Julia A. Parker and had ch. Isaac 8 and Miln P- 8, b. 1821 

Isaac 8 of New- York had w. Emeline and ch. Ecbert A. B. 9, Julia 9 
and Edward H. G. 9. 

Miln P. 8, of New-York, m. Sarah F. Townsend, and had ch. Frank 9, 
b. Aug. 13, 1851 : Albert E. 9. b. Jan. 17, 1854, and Euretta C. 9, b. June 
1856. 

Michael 5^ad\ch. Charles 6, b. Nov. 3, 1747: David 6, b. July 23, 
'1749: Miriam 6 b. Jan. 6, 1751: Michael 6 b. Sept. 11. 1752: Justus 6 b. 
June 30, 1754 : Mehetabel 6 b. 1756 : Loly 6 b. 1758 : Elizabeth 6 b. 1759 : 
Isaac 6, of Harperslield, N. Y. b. 1761 : Samuel 6, b. 1762: Lyman 6 b. 
Aug. 17, 1764, and Olive 6. ^, 

Charles 6'of Hax(i£aftfi«i<i*~SJvi>y'.fm. Jan. 29, 1746: Mehetabel Doo- 
littig]find had ch. Phrymes I. 7 b. OctTV, 1774 : Charles 7 b. Sept. 17, 1776 : 
Mary 7 b. Nov. 11, 1778 : Jioxana 7 b. Nov. 17, 1781 : Chauncey 7 b. March 
1783 : Matthew 7, John G. 7, and Asenath 7. 

Phrymest 7 m. Sarah Bryan and had ch. Harriet 8, b. 1798; Bryan 7, 
b. 1800: Bennett S. 8, b. May 2, 1809: Edmund O. 8, Sarah A. 8, Harriet 
C. 8, Shaler H. 8, Norman S. 8, James S. 8, Zachariah W. 8, Hiram S. 8, 
Stephen F. 8, and Adeline J. 8. 

Charles 7, of Harpersfield, N. Y. m. Mar3' Smith and had ch. Dr. 
Charles E. 8, of Berne : George A. 8 : Chauncey 8, of Albany : Mary A. 8, 
Maxamilla 8, Hezekiah 8, Emily 8. 

Chauncey 7 had ch. Chauncey L. 8, b. Feb. 19, 1815, and Mary 8. 

Justus 6 m. Hannah Titus, 1777, and ch. Spencer 7, b. Oct. 21, 1778 : 
Russell 7, b. 1780 : Rhoda 7, b. 1782 : Josiah 7, b. July 31, 1783 : Henry 7, 
Justus 7, Chester 7, Archibald 7, Elizabeth 7. 

Russell 7 had son Chester 8. 

Jonah 7 m. Mary Flint and had ch. Arvid 8, b. 1814 and Marcus 8. 

Henry 7 had ch. Spencer 8, of West Virginia, b. 1.S2U, and Lewis 8. 

Chester 7 had son William 8. 

Lyman 6 had ch. Isaac 7 and Samuel 7. 

Jonathan 5 d. July 31, 1804, m. Mary Yale, 1751, and had ch. Thank- 
ful 6, b. Dec. 6, 1753 : Jonathan 6, b. March 10, 1756 : Nathaniel 6 : Cor- 
nelius 6, b. Feb. 25, 1763 : Mary 6 : Bezaleel 6, b. March 15, 17G8 : Sa- 
rah 6, Miriam 6, Bedotha 6 and Darling 6. 

Jonathan 6 had ch Enos B. 7 and Lois 7. 

Nathaniel 6 had ch. Jude 7, Joshua 7, Sarah 7, Margaret 7, Pier- 
pont 7, b. 1795, Harriet 7 and Mabel 7. 

Cornelius 6 )n. Mary Bacheler and had ch. Susan 7, Lydia 7, Maiy 7, 
Sarali 7, Lewis 7, Jeremiali 7, and Conielius 7. 



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Bezaleel 6 d. Sept. 20, 1850, m. Sophia Johnpon an(i had s. Jonathan 
H. 7 and threo daus. 

Hezekiah 4, of Setauket, b. 1710, had ch. William 5, b. abt. 1734; 
Rebecca 5, b. 1736; Hezekiah 5, b. 1738; Spencer 5, b. 1740; Mary 5. b. 
1743 and Ami 5. b. 1745. 

Spencer 5, of St. George's Manor, L. I., had ch. William (5. b. 17()8 ; 
Phebe 6, b. 1774 and Robert 6, b. 17cS4- 

u iLiiiAM (), of Middletown Point, Monmouth Co., N. J. m. Elizabeth 
Herbert and had ch. Spencer 7, b. March 4, 1795; Hannah 7, Obadiah 7, 
Eliza H. 7, John Herliert 7, William 7. 

Spencer 7 had ch. Adelia «, barah 8, Herbert 8, b. March 21, 1829 ; 
Hannah 8, and William Spencer 8, b. Jan. 10, 1832, of Greenport, who 
m. Sarah Brown. 

Obauiah 7, of Wading River, L. I. had ch. Screno 8, b. Dec. 1, 1845, 
who m. JHattie Floyd; Sarah W. 8 and Kate 8. 

John Herbert 7 had s. John J. 8 b. 1830, who m. Mary Seward. 

Robert 6, of Speonk, d. April 24, 1826, m. Hannah Phillips and had 
ch. Noah 7, Orriu 7, b. 1808, Celinda 7 and Marietta J. 7. 

Orrin 7 had w. Mehetabt-l and ch. Elizabeth 8, b. 1833 ; George W. 8, 
b. 1836 and John R. 8, b. 1842. ' 

Nathaniel 4, D. abt 1715, of Setauket, had s. Tuttle 5. 

TUTTLE 5 m. Elizabeth Turner and had ch. Tryphena 6, Isaac 6, Na- 
thaniel 6 b. 1770, and Samuel 6 b. 1772. 

Nathaniel 6, of Riverhead, d. 1809, had ch. Miriam 7, w. of John Ed- 
wards, Nathaniel 7, of Manor, William 7, Ruth 7, Eleazer 7. Tuttle 7. 

Nathaniel 7 had ch. Ri<.-hard 8, William 8, Elizabeths, Jemima 8, 
and Mary 8. 

William 7 had ch. David 8, Andrew 8, George 8 of Port Jefferson. 

Samuel 6 d. in Port Jefferson March 25. 1853, m. Mary Goodwin, and 
had ch. Tuttle 7, b. Aug. 20 1796; Joseph 7, b. Jan. 1798; Mary 7, Rob- 
ert W. 7, Samuel 7, Louisa 7, Charles 7, Tryphena 7, Elizabeth 7, and 
Orange Webb 7. 

Tuttle 7 d. June 24. 1861, m. Ruth Tucker and had ch. Tuttle Orrin 8 
Charles Edwin 8, George M. 8 b. Jan. 10, 1831, Erastus Gardiner 8, Josh- 
ua N. 8, Mary C. 8, Eliza M. 8, Ruth A. 8, Hannah M. 8. 

Tuttle orrin 8, of Pt. Jefferson, m. Mary Jones and had ch. Charles 
E. 9, who m. Mary Lee; Marv E. 9, Margaret L. 9, Georgiana M. 9. 
Mary T. 9, Ruth I. 9, Tuttle O. 9. 

Charles Edwin 8 m. Amy S. Roe and had ch. Rulh E. 9, Amy T. 9 
Charles E. 9, Erastus G. 9, William Roe 9. 

George M. 8 had ch. George Tuttle 9. b. June 22, J 856, and d's who 
d. young. 

Erastus G. 8, of Athens, N. Y. m. Sarah M. Slater and had s. Orrin 
S. 9. 

Joseph 7, of Moriches, m. Jemima Robinson and had ch. Jemima 8, 
w. of Thos. Tuttle, Joseph 8 and David 8. "rj 

Joseph 8 m. Catharine Tuttle and had s. Joseph 9. ■■^"''' 7 

David 8 m. Cynthia HoUidaj and had ch. Isanna 9^ Robert W.^f, b. 
April 22, 1803, m. Hannah Dewick and had s. Samuel G. 10, of City Isl- 
and, N. Y. who m. Lousa Ales. 

SAMUEL 7 d. 1866, had s. Dallas 8, of Delta, Mich., who d. 1868. 

Orange Webb 7 bad ch. Mary 8, Elizabeth M. 8, and Geo. Warren 8, 
of New-York, b. Jan. 9, 1836. 

Burke's Gen. Armory mentions a Dayton family of Bedfojdshire and 
one family of Deighton also as using a coat of arms. 



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DOMINY FAMILY. 

AL a vory early day, and long before 1700, tho Doininy family came 
to East-Hampton. The first ancestor is rcj.ortpd to liave died young. 
Their origin was Irisli. Tlieir character has been positive, their ge- 
nius inventive. Their line runs thus: Nathaniel 1, Nathaniel 2, Na- 
thaniel 3, Nathaniel i, Nathaniel .5, Felix *!, Nathaniel 7. Nathaniel, Jr. 8. 
The last two are now living. 

Nathaniel, 7 had w. Sybil Mulford and ch. in the following order: 

Nathaniel, Jr. «. Henry 8, Harriet 8 wiio married Kellog, Felixes, 

Jeremiah Miller 8, Washingtou Tyson S, Mary 8, Chas. Mulford 8. 



EDWARDS FAMILY. 

David M. Edwards, of Sayville, N. Y., has prjpared tlie following 
genealogy of the ancient familj' whose name he bears. 

William Edwards 1 settled in East-Hampton before the year 1651, 
probably in 1(550, passing through Lynn and Taunton, Mass. There are 
good reasons for believing that he, his wife Ann and one child, came 
from Maidstone, county of Kent, England. He seems to have been a 
man of mind, heart and means, fully up to the average of his fellow 
townsman. 

1 William 1 d. KUs.") m. Ann r. East-Hampton, ch. 2 -fohn 2, 

:^ Thomas 2, 4 Ephraim 2, probably d. y. and uui. "» Sarah 2, (i Annie 2, 
7 l-lizabeth 2, 8 Hannah 2. 

2 John 2 d. 169:5, md. Maiy Stansborough, r. East-Hampton, ch. 
10 Thomas 3, 11 Josiali :i, 12 John .i. V.i William :i and Sarah .i who md. 
James Stansborough 1703, Margaret :i who md. Isaac Stretton 1703 and 

who md. Samuel Daniels. A co[iy of his will dated A.ug. 25, 1685, 

is in tiie possession of the writer of this. 

3 Thomas 2 d. April 10, 1698, md. Abigal r. East-Hampton, ch. 

14 Ephraim 3, 15 Thomas 3, l(i Daniel 3, 17 William 3, he moved to Ca|je 
May, N. J. 18 Alice 3, 19 Abigail 3, 20 Jane 3, 21 Elizabeth 3, 22 Esther 3. 
He left a will dated 1698 in E. H. town records. 

5 Sarah 2 md. 1st Nathaniel Dominy, 2d Kobert M.-re, r. East-Hampton 

6 Annie 2 md. Jolm Squires, r. East-Hampton. 

7 Elizabeth 2 md. Baker, r. East-Hampton. 

8 Hannah 2 md. William Bundle, r. East-Hampton. 

10 Thomas 3 b. 1668, d. 1736, md. Mary r. ETast-Hamptou, ch. 25 

John 4. 26 James 4, 27 Thomas 4 d. y. 28 Sarah 4, bab. 1702, 29 David 4, 
30 Mary 4, 31 Jeremiah 4, d. y. 32 Elizabeth 4 d. y. 33 Daniel 4, 34 Han- 
nah 4, 35 Rachel 4. He left a will recoi'ded in New-York city, chited 1736. 

11 Josiah 3 d. 1713, md. Mary Churchill of Wetherstield, Ct., r. East- 
Hampton, ch. 36 Josiah 4, 37 Churchill 4, 38 David 4, 39 Jonathan 4, 
40 Mercy 4, 41 Nathaniel 4, 42 Mary 4, 43 Joseph 4, 44 William 4, d. y. 
1725, 45 Martha 4 who md. William Barnes 1732 and lived in East-Hamp- 
ton. He left a will dated 1712 record(Kl in New-York. Feb. 11 a child 
of Josiah's died ; Feb. 13 the wife and mother died and on the 14th, Jo- 
siah himself died. After this the children went to Wetherstield and 
found homes among their mother's people. Mrs. A E. Stocking, of 
Cromwell, Ct., tias a record of descendants of Josiah. 

12 John 3 d. 1727, md. Anna r. East-Hampton, ch. 46 John 4, bap. 

1701. d. 1727 ; 47 Annie 4, 48 Elishaba 4, 49 Fiances 4, d. 1722, 50 Fnebe 4, 
b. 1718, d. 1738, 51 Esther 4, 52 Jerusha 4, 53 Elizabeth 4, b. 1726 d. 1737. 
54 Timothy 4, 55 Henry 4, 56 John 4. He left a will dated 1728. recovded 
in New-Vork city. His occupation was that of cord winder. 



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13 AViLLTAM 3 md. Alice Davtou : ch. 57 Abigail i. 58 William i, (]. j. 
59 William -i b. 1705. (JO EbPUozer i. 

14 Ephkaim 3 md. Sarah : ch. 65 Elizabelh 4, bap. 169!). (HJ Epli- 

raim 4, bap. 1701. About 1701 he moved to Cape May, N. J. After 
some years his name occurs several times in the town records, but 
trace of his family is lost. 

15 Thomas .S d. 1739, aged 07: um. 

16 Daniel 3 md. Mrs. Jane Brown, 1711, and had sou Daniel 4, bap. 
1715. He confessed to church covenant 1735. 

25 John 4 b. about 1699, d. after 1760. md. Mary Dibble 1716. r. Ama- 
gansett ; ch. 90 Thomas 5, 91 Joseph 5, 92 Jacob 5 bap. 1720, 93 Eunice 5, 
94 Lewis 5, 95 Elizabeth 5 d. '. 9() Jeremiah 5. 97 Mehetable 5, 9H Han- 
nah 5, 99 Jane 5 bap. 1737, 100 John 5, 101 Stephen 5, 102 Mary 5, 103 
Phebe 5 bap. 1746, 104 Elizabeth 5. He made a will in 1757, mentio.i- 
ing thirteen children by name. In 1760 he made another changing 
some of the bequests. Both. of these wills are in the possession of the 
heirs of David A. Edwards, of Wainscott. 

26 James 4 b. 1701. d. 1739. md. Abigail Johnson 1723 ; ch. 106 Joseph 5, 
107 Abigail 5 bap. 1731, lOS Phebe 5. " 

29 David 4 d. probablv 1781. md. 1st Alice Leek, d. 1742, md. 2d wid- 
ow Elizabeth Baily ; ch. "^110 Abraham 5. Ill Richard 5, bap, 1744. 112 
Alice 5, 113 Mercy 5, all bv 1st wife. He confessed to church coseuaut, 
1732. 

28 Sarah 4 md. Jamcis Hodg(^kins. r. (tuilford, Ct 

33 Daniel 4 bap. 1701, md. Rachel Conkliu, she d. 1790: ch. 114 Dan- 
iel 5, 115 Temperance 5, bap 1737, 116 Elizabeth 5 bap. 1748. 

34 Hannah 4 md. Josiah Glover, r. Oyster Bay, L. I. 

54 ruiOTHY 4 md. Kiitli ch. 151 John 5, 152 Henry 5, 153 David 5, 

154 Jonathan 5. 155 Timothy 5. He was a weaver by occupation, and 
moved to Dutches Co., N. Y. Letters of adms. of the estate of Timothy 
Edwards were granted 1785 and recorded in New- York city. 

56 John 4 b. 1727 d. 179^. See division No. 2, below. 

60 Ebenezek 4 b. 1708, d. 1771. or thereabouts, r. Southampton; ch. 
168 Ebeneze 5 d. y. 169 Hannah 5, bap. 1734. 170 Timothy 5, 171 Ebenez- 
er 5, 172 Alice 5, 173 William 5. 174 Phebe 5, 175 Daniel 5. 176 David 5, 
177 Abigail 5. He confessed to church c mveuant 1732 In 1747 he sold 
his farm at East-Hampton for 350£ and settled in Southampton. He 
left a will recorded in New-York city. 

61 Daniel 4 bap. 1715 md. ch. 130 Joseph 5, b. — d. 1775. 

90 Thomas 5, see division No 3 below. 

96 Jeremiah 5 bap. 1728, r. Amagansett. He md. and 

His wife and daughter both d. 1744. He probably md. again as he is 
mentioned in his father's will as having heirs in 1757. 

100 John 5, see divisior. No. 4 belew. 

101 Stephen 5, set* division No. 5 below. 
106 Joseph 5, see division No. 6 below. 
110 Abkaham 5, see divisi«)n No. 7 below. 

93 Eunice 5 b. 1722, md. Stpphen Cooper. 

97 Mehetable 5 b. 1732, md. King, 1759. 

171 Ebenezer 5 b. about 1736. In 1780 he was in Farmingtoa, Ct.. a 
refugee. In later years he lived in N. Y. City. unmd. He was known 
as "Majoi Ben." 

176 D.vviD 5 b. about 1744, md. Lucretia Payne, of Bridge-Hampton, 
and had son William 6, b. 1765. Before his sou VVilliam 6 was born he 
went away from home and never leturned. Very soon aftei- William 
was born the mother died. About 1790 William came from N. Y. City 



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where he had been living witli his uncle "Major Ben," married Eliza- 
beth Libcomb, of Sayville, bought property at Speonk and settled there 
and became noted as a large land owner. They had ch. Olive 7, Silas 7, 
Elizabeth 7, Nancy 7, William 7, Mall by 7, Charra 7. Of these Oliver 7 
md. Elizabeth Turner, and had ch. Louisa 8, Jesse 8, Oliver 8, Augus- 
ta 8, Jane 8, Phebe 8 and Fannie 8. Silas 7 md. Mary Rogers and had 
ch. Smith 8, Moses 8, Parmelia 8, Mary 8, Maltby 8, Oharri'3 8, Gilbert 
H. 8 and Mildred L. 8. 

Elizabeth 7 md. Robert Gordon, r. Moriches. 

Nancy 7 md. John Laraby. r. Moriches. 

William 7 md. Rachel Clark, r. Greenport, and had ch. William S, 
James 8 and Charles 8. 

Maltby 7 b. 1800, d. 1875, md. Hannah Bishop, r. Moriches, and had 
ch. William F. 8, Hannah M. 8, Maltby G. 8, Elizabeth 8 and Mary 8. 

Charra 7 jnd. Jonathan Hallock. 

Division No. 2. 
5(> John 4 b. 1727, d. 1797, md. Mehetable Russell, r. Southampton; 
ch. 1 John, 2 Silas, 3 Ann, 4 Phebe, 5 Lucretia, 6 Jemima. He left a 
Avill dated March 15, 1794, recorded in Riverhead. 

1 John 5 b. 1749, d. 1S29, md. Mercy VanScoy, ch. 7 Russell, 8 Isaac, 
9 John, 10 Abraham, 11 Patience, 12 Matsie. He was a soldier in the 
Revolutionary war and drew a soldiers pension in later years. 

2 SiLAsS had ch. 13 Sallv, 14 Betsey, 15 Esther, 16 Phebe, 17 Abby, 
18 Henry, 19 Silas, 19i Thomas. 

3 Ann 5 md. Henry Edwards, son of 106 Joseph, see division No. 6. 

4 Phebe 5 md. Braddock Corey. 

5 Lucretia 5 md. Aaron Drake. 

6 Jemima 5 md. Samuel Crook. 

7 RrssELL 6 b. 1779, d. 1836, md. Temperance Howell 1801 ; ch 20 Jer- 
niiah, 21 Elizabeth H.. 22 John R.. 23 Joshua B., 24 Lydia, 25 Charles P. 
26 Sarah W., 27 Matsee, 28 Lewis R., 29 Phebe. 

S Isaac (S d. 1846. m. Betsy VanBushkirk, r. Sag-Harbor, ch 30 W ood- 
ruf, 31 Lawrence. 32 Henry, 33 David 0., 34 Elizabeth, 34i Mary, 35 Eu- 
genia, 36 Andrew, who went to Cal. 

9 John 6 d. 1858. md. Deborah Penuy, r. Bridge-Hampton; ch. 37 Jo- 
seph A., 38 Lodowick H., 39 John P.. 40 Deborah C, 41 Mary J., 42 Fran- 
ces, 43 Hannah, 44 Charlotte, 45 Henrietta. He was in the war of 1812. 

10 Abkaham 6 b. 1795, d. 1856, md. 1st Lydia Foster and 2d Lucy 
Downs, ch. 46 Catherine, 47 Sidney, d. y. 48 Anna, 49 Lydia, 50 Austin, 
51 Orlando. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and drew the sol- 
dier's pension, and lived in Good Ground. 

11 Patience 6 md. Gilbert Budd, r. Noyac. 

12 Matsie 6 md. Thomas Smith, r. Sag-Harbor. 

13 Sally 6 md. Samuel Bennett, r. Amagansett. 

14 Betsj' 6 md. Peleg Sherman, r. Sag-Harbor. 

15 Esther 6 md. Babcock, r. Sag-Haibor. 

16 Phebe 6 md. Daniel Payne, r. Noyac. 

17 Abby 6 md. Henry Bennett, r. Three Mile Harbor. 

18 Henky 6 ch. 52 Henry, 53 Cornelia, 54 Ablis. They reside in Ct. 

20 Jeremiah 7 b. 1802, d. 1865, md. Cathei-ine Ackermao, r. N. Y. city. 
ch. 55 Charles, 56 John, 57 Catherine, 58 Esther, 59 Celia d. y., 60 Sara- 
phine, 61 George W. d. y., 62 Jeremiah. 

21 Elizabeth 7 b. 1804, d. i860, md. Henry Edwards. See 33 Henry, 
division No. (i. 

22 John 7 b. 1805, d. 1823, unmd. 



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'2:5 Joshua 7 b. 1807. d. 1876, m<l. Lucinda Clark 1832, r. N. Y. city; 
.h. m Charles A., 64 Emily J. d. v., 65 Emilic J. 

24 Lydia 7 b. 1820, md. William K. Gandy, r. in Cal. 

25 Chables 7 b. 1812, d. 1882, md. Alice May, r. N. Y. city ; ch. 66 Har- 
riet, 67 Charles H. d. y. 

26 Sarah 7 b. 1809, d. 1875, md. Watson Edwards. See 40 Watson, di- 
^■ision No. 5. 

27 Matsey 7 b. 1817. d. 1852, md. Alfred Eanger, r. Northwest, L. I. 

28 Lewis K. 7 b. 1814, d. 1896, md. Polly Crook, 1837. r. Noyac ; ch 68 
Mary E., 69 Adelia C, 70 Emily C, 71 Oscar JB., 72 Charles M., 73 Frank 
L.. 74 Lewis K. 

29 Phebe A. 7 b. 1822, d. 1885, md. Albert Williamson, r. Good Ground. 

30 WooDKUF 7 b. 1846, md. 1st Phebo Brown and 2d Catherine Gar- 
diner; ch. none; was lost at sea ; r. Sag. Harbor. 

31 Law^rence 7 b. 1814, d. 1878. md. 1st Susan J. Rogers and had 100 
Henry, 101 Joseph C. 102 Anna R. and 103 Susan J. Md. 2d wife in 
Lynn, Mass. and went to Cal. and died there. 

32 Hen'RY 7 ii:d. Mary J. Green, r. Sag-Harbor; died at sea; ch. 75 
Manetta, 76 Belle, 77 Carrie, 78 Henry. 

33 David O. 7 b. 1817, d. 1893. md. Ida Beebe, r. Sag-Harbor, ch. 104 
AUetta, 105 Anna d. y. 106 Elbert. 

34 Elizabeth 7 md. Stewart Hand, and went to Cal. 

35 Eugenia 7 b. 1827, md. Henry SteAvart, r. Brooklyn. 

37 Joseph A. 7 b. 1819, md. 1st Caroline Snook, 2d Lydia Frazer, r. 
Hays City, Kansas ; ch. 79 Mary, 80 Helen, 81 John, 82 Eliza, 83 Henry, 
84jEva, 85 Byron ; the two last by 2d wife. 

38 LoDwicK 7 b. 1824, d. 1858, md. Lucy Avery, r. Sag-Harbor; ch. 86 
Maria, 87 Deborah, 88 Oscar. 

39 John P. 7 b. 18:30, md. Sarah Hayes, r. Colorado ; ch. Minnie and 
Oscar. 

40 Deborah 7 b. 1814, md. Henry Snook. 1835, r. South Glastenbury, Ct. 

41 Mary Jane 7, b. 1819, d. 1894, md. Henry B. Tuthill, 1838, r. East- 
Hampton. 

42 Frances 7 b. 1823, md. Atwater Hale, r. Glastenbury, Ct. 

43 Hannah 7 b. 1825, md. William White, r. Sag-Harbor. 

44 Charlotte 7 b. 1827, md. Samuel Policy, r. Sag-Harbor. 

45 Henrietta 7 b. 1833, md. Charles Douglass, r. Glastenbury, Ct. 

46 Catherine 7 b. 1819, md. Benjamin Wells, r. Southold. 

47 Sidney 7 d. y. 

48 Anna 7 b. 1842, md. Jarvis Skidmore, r. Islip, L. I. 

49 Lydia 7, b. 1853, d. 1879, md. Egbert Raynor. r. Good Ground. 

50 Austin 7 b. 1849, md. Helen J. Anderson, 1880, r. Southampton ; 
ch. 91 Georgiana, 92 Louisa, 93 Emma J. 

51 Orlando 7 b. 1844, d. 1863, unmd. He was a private soldier in the 
127th Eegt. N. Y. S. volunteers. Col. Wm. Gurney. His death resulted 
from fatigue and exposure at the battle of Bull Run. 

.55 Charles H. 8 b. 1826, d. 1848, unmd. 

56 John L. 8 b. 1828, d. 1857. md. Mary A. W^alker, r. N. Y. city; ch. 
94 William, living in Nebraska, 95 Ida L., 96 John H. d. y. 97 Mary L. 

»7 Catherine 8, md. Henry Wright. 

.58 Esther 8, md. Charles S. Smith. 

59 Seraphine 8, md. E. W^ Streeper. 

62 Jeremiah 8 b. 1839, md. Julia L. Hand, r. Brooklyn; ch. 98 Lewie 
R. d. y. 99 Mary E. 

65 Emilie J. 8, md. James B. D. McNab, 1872, r. N. Y. city. 



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R6 Harriet 8 b. 1839, md. 1st Kichard Riker, 2d W. H. Hchornierhorn, 
r. N. Y. city. 

68 Marj' E. 8 b. 1838. md. 1st James Neal. 2d William Squires, r. Meoox 

69 Adelia 8 md. William Squires, r. Mecox. 

70 Emily C. 8 b. 1845, d. 1877, md. George Hedges, r. Noyac. 

71 OscAK B. 8 b. 1847. md. Aimie E. Sampson, r. Bridge-Hampton; 
ch. Oscar W., Fred, Rutherford, Fannie M., Emma, Margaret O., Geor- 
giana. Annie, Russell and Miriam. 

72 Charles H. 8, b. 1850, md. Mary Warren, r. Brooklyn; ch. Clara 
and Anna. 

73 Frank L. 8 b. 1854, md. Mattie Terrell, r. New Haven, Ct. ; ch. Hol- 
land, Ethel, Leslie. 

74 Lewis R. 8 b. 185G, md. Nettie Havens, r. Noyac; ch. Maud. 

75 Manette 8, md. Barnes, r. N. Y. city. 

76 Belle 8, md. ■ Havens, r. N. Y. city. 

86 Maria 8, md. William Conklin. r. Easl-Hamptou. 

87 Deborah 8, md. John Goodrich, r. Glastenbury, Ct. 

88 Oscar 8, md. Hattie Perkins, r. Noank, Ct. 

100 Henry L. 8, he enlisted in the 2d N. Y. State Cavalry, under Gen. 
Phil. Sheridan, and was killed in the Shenandoah valley in 1864, aged 
24; unmd. 

101 Joseph 8, md. Emma Jerome, r. Cal., ch. Manetta. 

102 Anna R. 8, md. William M. Piei'son, lawyer, r. Cal. 

103 Susan 8, md. William A. Jennings, r. Cal. 

104 Aletta B. 8, md. Robert Cochrane, and has daughter Carrie. 
106 Elbert 8, md. r. N. Y. ch. a sou. 

This division ends with iith generation. 



Division No. 3. 
90 Thomas 5 b. 1717, d. 1784, md. Anna Barnes, r. Amagansett; ch. 1 
Jonathan, 2 Thomas, 3 Elizabeth, 4 Phebe, 5 Isaac, 6 Esther. 7 Anna, 
8 Temperance, 9 Mehetable. 

1 Jonathan 6 b. 1747, d. 1829, md. 1st Hannah Miller, 2d Lucretia Les- 
ter, r. Amagansett; ch. 10 Isaac B., 11 Jonathan, 12 Daniel, 13 Hannah, 
14 Josiah, 15 Thomas, 16 Mary 17 Hezekiah, 18 Temperance, 19 Henry. 

2 Thomas 6 b. 1753, d. 1835, md, 1st Mary Gardiner, 2d Mary White, 
3d Hannah Conklin, r. Amagansett; ch. 20 Samuel by 1st wife, 21 Polly 
by 2d wife. 

5 Isaac 6 b. 1760, d. 1825, md. Ruth Homan, r. Springs; ch. 22 Lewis, 
23 Sylvanus, 24 Isaac, 25 Annie, 26 Phebe. 27 Mary A. 

4 Phebe 6 md. David Talmadge ; 3 Elizabeth 6 d. uum. 

6 Esther 6 md. 1st Hedges, 2d Sandtord. 

7 Anna 6 md. Ezekiel Payne. 

8 Temperance 6 md. Benjamin Miller. 

9 Mehitable 6 md. Talmadge. 

10 Isaac B. 7 b. 1776, d. 1856, md. Phebe Barnes, r. Amagansett; ch. 
30 Nathaniel, 31 Polly, 32 Isaac B., 33 Phebe T., 34 Fanny, 35 Jonathan. 

11 Jonathan 7 b. 1777, d. 1859, md. Lydia Sandford. r. Franklin, N. 
Y. ; ch. 37 Sherald d. y., 38 Esther, 39 Harriet, 40 Julia. 41 Elishaba, 
42 Daniel d. y., 43 Austin. 

12 Daniel 7 b. 1778, d. 1S59, md. Mehetable Sanford. r. Amagauset ; 
ch. 44 Hannah. 49 Daniel, 50 Mary. 

14 Josiah 7 b. 1781, d. 1859, md. Mary Davis, 1813, r. Franklyn, N. Y. ; 
ch. 51 Henry, 52 Temperance, 53 Mary, 54 Lucretia, 55 William d. y. 

15 Thomas 7 b. 1772, d. 1859, md. Vashti Shirreil, r. Amagansett; ch. 



2fi3 

o(i Mary C, 57 Irena, d. y. 58 Thomas II., 59 Lydia, 60 Sophronia, d. y. 
fil Eliza, fi'2 Ely H., 6:? Edwin H., (A Nathaniel H. 

17 Hezekiah 7 b. 1790, d. 1864, ind. 1st Lueretia Lester, 2d Clarisa J. 
Hulse, r. Aniagansett ; ch. 65 Hannah by 1st wife, 6(i Hezekiah b. 1H6:^, 
d. 1HS9, unmd. 

19 Hexky 7 b. 1795, d. 18S1, md. Clarisa Kent. r. Franklyn, N. Y. eh. 
none. 

13 Hannah 7 b. 1780, d. 1862, nid. Jonathan Barnes, r. Aniagansett. 
16 Mary 7 b. 1785, d. 18:i5, rad. Moses Clark, r. Moriches. 

18 Temperance 7 b. 1791, d. 186.'^, md. Knowles Smith, r. Sag-Harbor. 

20 Samuet. 7 b. 1778, d. 187.3, rad. Rebecca Haynes, r. Amagansett ; 
ch. 67 Thomas, 68 Mary G. md. Charles Parsons, 69 Nancy md. George 
Stratton. 

22 Lewis 7 b. 1784, d. 1865, md. 1st Mary Miller, 2d Phebe Howell, r. 
Springs ; ch. 70 Sylvanus, 71 Sine as M., 72 Mary E. 

23 Sylvanus 7 b. 1790, d. 1860, md. Sarah Brown, r. Orient; ch. 73 
Lewis A., 74 David B., 75 Isaac S.. 76 John B., 77 James S.. 78 Sarah A. 
79 Mary H., 80 Phebe C, 81 Amelia d. y. 8U Henry d. y. 

24 Isaac 7 b. 1803, d. 1888, 7iid. Hannah Edwards. 1825, see 44 Hannah 
below, r. Spiiugs; ch. 82 Annie, 83 Henrj' L., 84 Sophronia, 85 Isaac S., 
86 Harriet. .S7 Haunahett, 88 George. 

25 Annie 7 b. 1786, d. 1844, md. Asa Miller, r. Springs. 

26 Phebe 7 b. 1799, d. 1885, md. Smith S. Miller, r. 

30 Nathaniel 8 b. ]806, d. 1885, md. Irena Bennett, r. Amagansett. 
ch. lUO Albert B., 101 Jrshua B., 102 Charles B., 103 Jesse B., 104 Fran- 
ces, 105 Gabriel, 106 William H 

32 Isaac B. 8 b. 1809, d. 1859, Jiid. Thankful Miller, 1834. r. Amagan- 
sett ; ch. 107 Mary C, 108 Nancy, 109 Eliza, 110 Jenette H., HI Althea, 
112 Joseph. 

35 Jonathan 8 b. 1826, md. 1st Emeline Shepard, 2d Phebe Edwards, 
see 131 Phebe below, r. Amagansett ; ch 113 John S., 114 Elmer W., 
lU- Florence, 116 Hannah, 117 Isaac B., 118 Belinda A., 119 Mary E., 
all by 1st wife. 

31 Polly 8 b. 180(.. d. 1851, rad. Caleb Duval, r. North Haven, L. I. 

33 Phebe 8 b. 1819, md. Samuel Mulford, r. Amagansett ch. Dr. Edgar 

34 Fanny 8 b. 1822, d. 1880, md. Albert Bennett, r. Amagansett. 

38 Esther 8 rad. 1st Tracy, 2d Canfleld. 

39 Harriet 9 md. Morris Vail. 

40 Julia B. 8 md. Ransom Sheppard. 

41 Elizabeth B. 8 rad. David Dewey. 

43 AUSTIN 8 b. 1817, d. 1864, rad. Ann Fairling, 1837, r. Franklyn, N. 
Y. ; ch. 120 Sherald, 121 Bliss A.. 122 Austin. 123 Jonathan, 124 Vashti, 
125 Mary Ann, 126 .j ulia, 127 Esther, 12M Elishaba. 129 Kate, 130 Thomas M 

45 Henky S. 8 b. 1806, d. 1870, md. Rachel Miller, r. Amagansett; ch. 
131 Phebe A., md. 1st Albert Edwards, see 100 Albert below; md. 2d 
Jonathan Edwards, see 35 Jonathan above ; 132 Helen M. who rad. Dr. 

Robinson, 1M35, and r. in Brooklyn, and 133 Sarah who rad. H. H. 

Benjarain, 1858, r. Riverhead. 

44 Hannah 8 md. Isaac Edwards, see 24 Isaac above, r. Springs. 

46 Charlotte 8 b. 1812. d. 1874, rad. William White. 

47 Sophronia 8 b. 1K15. d. 1805, rad. Abraham Leek, r. Amagansett. 

48 Harriet 8 b. 1820. md. John Vail. 

50 Maiy 8 b. 1829, rad. 1st Amzi Lester, 2d Gardiner B. Topping, r. 
Sagaponack, L. I. 

51 Henky 8 b. 1H05, md. Laura Banlsley, 1839, r. Franklyn, N. Y., ch. 
none. 



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52 Temperance 8 b. 1818, md. Shermau Barnes, 1844, r. Franklyn. 

53 Mary 8 md. George Jackson, 1849, r. Cold Water, Mich. 

54 Lucretia 8 md. David Bardsiey, 1847, r. Franklyn 
56 Mary C. 8 b. 1810, d. 1862, md. Steplien B. Bennett. 

58 Thomas M. 8 b. 1814, md. Catherine a1. Barnes, r. Amacansett; ch. 
147 Nathaniel d. y., 149 Kate M. b. 1851, md. Benjamin H. Terry. 

59 Lydia H. 8 b. 1816, md. Jeremiah Conklin. 

61 Eliza 8 b. 1820, md. William H. Babcock. 

62 Ely H. 8 b. 1822, d. 1851, md. Eliza T. Wheeler, r. Sag-Harbor, ch. 
none. 

63 Edwin H. 8 b. 1824, md. Mary Leper, 1850, r. New Haven, Ct. ; ch. 
150 Elizabeth, 151 Thomas M., 152 Arthur G., 153 Harriet M., 154 George 
H., 155 Edgar B., 156 Phebe, 157 Nellie H.. 158 Herbert W. 

64 Nathaniel H. 8 b. 1826, d. 1890, md. Betsy Schellinger, 1861, r. 
Amagansett; ch. 159 Antoinette md. George S. Baker, 160 Josephine 
md. E. B. Leek, r. Amagausett, 161 Ferdinand C. d. y. 

65 Hannah 8 md. Jonathan Miller, r. Springs. 

67 Thomas 8 b. 1812, d. 1887, md. Frances M. Conklin, r. Amagansett; 
ch. 162 Maria F. md. Charles T. Hand, 163 Julia A. md. J. T. Parsons. 

70 SYiiVANUS G. 8 b. 1810, d. 1864, md. Marietta Terry, 1832, r. Springs 
ch. 164 Eliza M. md. Timothy L. Miller, 1889, 165 Amanda md. Jeremian 
Baker. 

71 SiNNETJS M. 8 b. 1812, md. Clarisa M. Lester. 1845, r. Springs; ch. 
Phebe d. unmd. 

72 Mary E. 8 b. 1827, md. Daniel Edwards; see 22 Daniel, div. No. 6. 

73 Lewis A. 8 b. 1811, d. 1879, md. 1st Mary Smith, 2d Mary J. Livings- 
ton, 3d Emma Beers, r. Orient ; ch. 167 James L.. 168 Gilbert S, both d. y. 

74 David B. 8 b.l818, md. 1st Tereasa J. Case, zd Hattie L. King. r. 
Orient; ch. 169 Arabelle J. d. y., 170 Lewis A., 171 Budolph M. <l. y., 
172 Thaddeus S., 173 Delia. 

75 Isaac S. 8 b. 1821, d. 1880, md. Eliza Tuthill, r. Orient; ch. 174 Em- 
ma G., 175 Nathaniel 0., 176 Annie, 177 Mary L., 178 Elizabeth d. y., 
179 George L., 180 Edward S., 181 Sarah W. 

76 John B. 8 b. 1823, d. 1876 of yellow fever in S. A. md. 1st Jane A. 
Winters, 2d Sarah McCarty, r. Orient; cli 182 Phebe, 180 Jane d. y. 

77 James S. 8 b. 1837, d. J861, md. Mary L. Thomas, r. Orient; ch. 184 
Mary E. d. y., 185 Kate L., b. 1862, md. William E. Genung. 

78 Sarah A. 8 1». 1813, d. 1852, md. Capt. James Davis, 2d Jas. Terhune 

79 Mary H. 8 b. 1816, d. 1855, md. Seth Tabor. 

80 Phebe O. 8 b. 1825, md. George K. Hackett. 

82 An»ie 8 b. 1829, md. Solomon Bailey. 

83 Henry L. 8 b. Ib31, md. Alma Bourne, r. Amagansett, ch. none. 

84 Sophronia 8, b. 1833, d. 1856, md. George Bucher. 

85 Isaac S. 8 b. 1835, md. Alice Lain, r. Springs ; ch. 186 Mo;.-ton H. 187 
Emma L. md. Hiram Miller, 188 William L., I88i Essie B., 189 Ervin L. 

86 Harriet 8 b. 1838, md. Barney Smith. 

87 Hannah E. 8 b. 1840, md. C. M. Grilling. 

88 Geoege B. 8 1844, md. Martha Tuthill, r. Springs, ch. Bei tha, b. 1872. 

Here ends the 8th generation. 

100 Albert B. 9 d. 1873, md. Phebe Edwards, see 131 Phebe, division 
No. 3, r. Amagansett; ch Alice I. b. 1850, md. John Vail, r. East Marion. 
Albert E. b. 1863, ind. Edith Smith, i. Southampton; Charles S. o. 1865, 
md. Edith Leek, r. Amagausett; Nellie K. b. 1867, md. Frank A. Rack- 
ett, r. East Marion. 



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101 Joshua B. 1). 1830, md. Delia Conklin, 1868, r. Amagansett; c.b. 
Herbert, Everett J., Rose B., David and Samuel. 

10;5 Jesse B. 9 b. 1835, md. Maria E. Havens, v. Amagansett; cli. Ella 
T. B. 1865, Clinton H. who md. Mary Ward 1S'.)5, Carrie B., Lena M. 

104 Frances 9 b. 18-11, md. James Conklin, r. Nangatuck, Ct. 

105 Gabkiel 9 b. 184n, md. Ella Mauwaning, 1871, r. Amagansett; 
eh. Edith md. Everett Babeock, Bell", Nathaniel, Irene. 

10(; William 9, md. Emma Oakley, r. Amagansett. 

107 Mary G. b. 1836, md. Frank Lawrence, v. Amagansett. 

108 Nancy 9 b. 1839, md. John B. Lawrence, r. East-Hampton. 

109 Eliza 9 b. 1841 md. Henry Tillinghast, r. East-Hampton. 

110 Jenette 9 b. 1843, md. Samuel Sherman, 1873, r. Amagansett. 

111 Althea 9 b. 1845, md. William T. Baker, r. Amagansett. 

112 Joseph M. 9 b. 1847, m. Jennie Preston, r. Amagansett, 

113 John S. 9 b. 1850, d. 1881, md 1st Emma Clark, ch. Annie b. 1887 ; 
md. 2 Genevieve Manwarring, ch. Pauline, May M., Frank H. 

114 Elmek W. 9 b. 1854, md. 1st Clara J. Dennis, ch. Clara J. who md. 
Robert Grilling; md. 2d Nancy Loper, ch. Emeline, Nancy, Elmer W. 

115 Florence 9 b. 1857, md. Samuel Fields, r. East-Hampton. 

116 Hannah 9 b. 1859, md. Pulaski Bennett, r. Amagansett. 

117 Isaac B. 9 b. 1860, md. Lizzie Gardiner, r. East Marion; ch. Le- 
roy G., Irene E., Edna G. Lizzie E. 

118 Belinda A. 9 b. 1865, md. Wm. Potter, r. Virginia. 
170 Lewis A. 9 b. 1848, d. 1887, unmd. r. Orient. 

172 Thaddeus S. 9 b. 1853, d. 1884, md. Mary E. Topping, r. Sagapon- 
ack ; ch. William and Floyd. 

173 Delia 9 b. 1858, d. 1886 unmd. 

174 Emma G. 9, md. William H. Holmes. 

175 Nathaniel 9 b. 1852, md Mary L. Gilbert, r. Brooklyn ; ch. Grace 
H., Margueritte d. y.. Charles G., Natalie. 

176 Anna S. 9, md. Fred H. Anthony. 

177 Mary L. 9, md. .John T. Morris. 

179 Geoege 9, md. Addle J. Brown, r. Orient; ch. Mildred. Irma D. 

180 Edward S. 9, md. Mary A. Terry, r. Orient; ch. Isaac T. Rachel D. 

181 Sarah W. 9, md. Charles N. Bellows. 

182 Phebe A. 9 b. 1844, md. 1st N. W. Hansom, 2d Frank Taylor. 

Division No. 4. 

100 John 5 b. 1738, in Amagansett, d. 1826 in Sayville, md. Sarah 

r. Sayville ; ch. 1 Sarah, 2 Matthew, 3 Stephen, 4 Catherine, 5 John, 5A 
Mary. He was in the French and Indian war in the northern part of 
N. Y. 1758 and 59. At the close of the war he came back to L. I., mar- 
ried and settled in Sayville in 1761. 

1 Saiah 6 b. 1762. bhe md. and at the close of the Revolutionary war 
moved away, and trace of them has been lost. 

2 Matthew 6 b. 1764, d. 1838, md. 1st Elizabeth Morris, 2d Mrs. Jemi- 
ma Smith, r. Sayville; ch. 6 Jeremiah, 7 Reuben, 8 Elizabeth, 9 Charity, 
10 Martha, 11 Jemima, 12 Matthew d. y., 13 Mary, 14 James M., all by 
first wife. 

3 Stephen 6 b. 1766, d. 1842, md. Amy Smith, r. Freeport, L. I. ; ch. 
15 James S. d. y., 16 Sarah, 17 Abigail. 18 John, 19 Silas C, 20 Phebe, 
21 Thomas, 22 Catherine, 23 A. Bedell, 24 Michael, 25 William d. y., 
2C) Samuel d. y. 

4 Catherine 6 b. 1775, d. 1866, md. Isaac Willetts, r. Sayville. 
5JohnC, b. 1776, d, 1810, md. Jemima Morris, r. Sayville, L. I.; ch. 

27 Jacob, 28 John, d. unmd. 29 Moses. 



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5i Mary 6 b. 1772, md. Thomas Smith, r. Sayville. 

(■> "Jeremiah 7 b. 1787, d. 1815, md. Abigail"" Smith, r. Sayvillo ; eh. 30 
Alfred wiio md. Phebe Hawkins aud had no children. 

7 Reuben 7 b. 1788, d. 1863. md. Phobc^ Howoll, r. Sayville; ch. 31 Eliz- 
abPth, 32 Anna. 33 Reuben, 31 Pliebi\ 

8 Elizabeth 7 b. 1790, d. 1824, md. John V;iil, r. Riverhead, L. I. 

y Charity 7 b. 179-2, d. 18(;7, md. Smith Hammoiid, i-. Patchogue, L. I. 

10 Martha 7 b. 1794, md. David Yot.iig, r. Sayville. 

11 Jemima 7 b. 1800, d. 18G4, md. Elias Howell, r. Sayville. 

13 Mary 7 b. 1805, d. 18H1, md. Silas C. Seaman, r. Sayville. 

14 James M 7 b. 1808, d. 1894, md. Deborah A. Green, r. Sayville; ch. 
35 David M., 3(1 Jeremiah M.. 37 Caleb M., 38 Charity E., 39 Kachel A., 
40 John S., 41 D. Sophia. 

16 Sarah 7 md. 1st D. G. Pearsall, 2d Cornelias VanClief, r. N. Y. city. 

17 Abigail b. 1790 d. 1855, md. David Seamanj-r. Port Washington, L. I. 

18 John 7 b. 1799, d. 1869, md. Amy Raynor, r. Freeport, L. I. ; ch 42 
Phebe d, unmd, 43 Amy Ann, 44 John. 

19 Silas C. 7 b. 1802, d. I860, md. Deborah Seaman, r. Sayville; ch. 
45 John D. d. in S. A. unmd, 46 Edwyrd, 47 Amelia, 48 Lucinda. 

20 Phebe 7 b. 1804, d. 1889, md. 1st James Smith, 2d James Heury, r. 
N. Y. city. 

21 Thomas 7 b. 1806, d. 1869, md. Rachel A. Carman, r. Freeport; ch. 
49 William, 50 Caroline, 51 Lydia Ann, 52 Thomas, 53 Susan. 54 Bedell. 

22 Catherine 7 b. 1808, d. 1868, md. Raynor Pine. r. Freeport. 

23 Bedell 7 b. 1810, d. 1855, md. Ann Scull, r. Biooklyn; ch. 55 
Thompson d. y., 56 Henry. 

24 iViicHAEL 7 b. 1816, d. 1866, md. Julia Fish, r. Brooklyn, ch. 57 Mel- 
vin, 58 Samuel b. 1840, d. 1864. unmd, 59 George b. 1842, d. 1872 unmd. 

'^7 Jacob 7 md. Dorothy Young, i-. Sayville; 60 Jemima, 61 Henry, 62 
Catherine d. y. Burned to death. 

29 Moses 7 b. 1805, d. 1856, md. Esther Blackman, r. N. Y. city; ch. 
63 Mary B., 64 Katie E., 65 John C. d. y., 66 Lottie A,, 67 Edward M. 

31 Elizabeth 8 b. 1817, md. Jacob Smith, r, Sayville. 

32 Anna 8 b. 1821, md. Edmund Brown, r. Bayport, L. I. 

33 Reuben 8 b. 1825, md. 1st Henrietta Newins, 2d Belinda Hawkias, 
aud had ch. 75 Jennie, md. 3d Emma Loper, r. Sayville. 

34 Phebe 8 b. 1829, md. Charles Z. Gillette, r. Sayville. 

35 David M. 8 b. 1836, md. Sarietta- Corwin, r. Sayville; ch. 76 James 
M.. 77 Grace. 

36 Jekemiah M. 8 b. 1839, d. 1879, md. Susan Vail, r. Riverhead; ch. 
78 E. Blanche. 79 George V. Prof, of Latin in Union College, 80 J. Irving, 
81 Jane V. d. y. 

37 Caleb M. 8 b. 1842, .1. 1872, md. Ciarisa Petty, r. Sayville; ch, 82 
Charles O., 83 William P. 

38 Charity E. 8 b, 1845, md. Jacoli O. Hopping, r. Wainscott. 

39 Racnel A. 8 b. 1848, unmd. 

40 John S, 8 b. 1852, md. Annie S. Liscomb, r. Sayville; ch. 84 Alfred 
C, 85 Belinda L., 86 Laura S. d. y., 87 Haniuih E. 

41 D. Sophia 8 b. 1855, md. Thomas B. Skidmore, r. Southold, L. I. 

43 Amy Ann 8 md. Walter N. Weeks, r. Hempstead, L. I. 

44 John 8 b. 1838, md. r. Freeport. 

46 Edwakd 8 b. 1828, md. Arzelia Dinimick, r. Sayville, ch. 88 Ada M. 
89 Ambrosia M. d. y.. 90 Edward D. 

47 Anieiia 8 b. 18;'54, md. Wm. Osborne, r. South Haven, L. I, 

48 Lucinda 8 b, 183(i, md, Charles H. Smith, r, Sayville, 

49 William 8 o. 1832, md, Anni(! , ch, none. 



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50 Caroline 8 b. 1833, md. Thomas E. Wcoks, r. Hcnii't-lcad. 

51 Lvdia Ann 8 b. 1835, nid. Nelson H. Duryeji. r. Henj] stead. 

52 Thomas S b. 1837. d. 1880, md. 1st Lavina Sniitli. 'Jd Laura Stronj:. 
by whom he had ch. 92 Bertrell. [Ki Estelle. 

53 Susan 8 md. 1st Abraham Din yea, 2d Smith Pine, r. Free[iort. 

54 Bedell 8 md. Sa..-ali Giilen, r.Broolvlyn, eh. ;)•! Aliee, 95 Lizzie. 

5(. Heney 8 b. 1838, md. Hanimii (i. Viu-(\ i. Brooklyn, ch. 1)0 Bertha. 

57 Melvix 8 b. 1844, md. Frances VaiiAlste, r. Brooklyn, eh. 07 Fied S. 
!J8 Adelaide, l)i) Julia M.. 100 Koberl C, 101 M.Lester, 102 Fanny A. 
103 Georgiaua. 

60 Jemima 8 md. Alonzo \I. Woodhull. r. Watling River. L. I. 

Kl Henky 8 b. 18(;h, md. Fiiali Overton, r. Brookhaven, ch. 104 John 
E. d. v., 105 Henrv O. 

63 Mary B. 8 b. 1839, d. 1859, md. C. M. Hulse. r. Port Jeflersoii. L. I. 

64 Katie E. 8 b. 1840, d. 1870, jud. Brewster Jayne. r. Poii Jefferson. 

66 Lottie A. 8 b. 1847, md. Jauies E. Hulse. r. East Setauket, L. I. 

67 Edward M. 8 b. 1852, md. Julia M. Ptosemau. r. Bridgeport, Ct. 
ch. 106 Lottie B., 107 Ella G., 108 Ira li. 

Here ends the 8th generation. 

76 James M. 9 b. 18(52 md. Charlotte E. Kaynor. r. Brooklyn, ch. James 
M.. Violette d. v., Lois. Marion, (irace S. 

80 J. Ikving 9 b. 1870, md. Lillie M. Vail, r. Hivcn'head. eh. Jane V. 

82ChaelesO. 9 b. 1864, md. Ella Lafferauden-. r. Sayville, eh. Clar- 
issa D. 

83 William P. 9 b. 1866, md. Iluth L. Kaynor, r. r«ayvillc, eh. Caleb 
M., Saiah L. 

90 Ed^vakd D. 9 b. 1861, md. Barbari Reitzell, r. Sayville. 

89 Ada M. 9, b. 1855, md. Nelson Strong, r. Sayville. 

Division No. 5. 
101 Stephen 5 b. 1741, D. 1801, md. Lucretia Miller, r. Wainscott; ch. 

I Bethuel. 2 James. 3 John. 4 Elibu. 5 Frederick, 6 Miller, 7 Stephen, 
7.', Mary. Stephen lt;ft a will proved 1801, recorded at Riverhead. 

"l Bethuel 6 b. 1776, d. 1857, md. 1st Mehetable Topping and had ch. 
8 Mehetable d. y., 9 Alfred d. y., 10 Josiah, drowned in L. I Sound unin., 

II Esther, md. 2d Matsey Strong and had ch. 12 Mary, 13 Sophia, 
14 David A. 

2 James 6 b. 1776, d. 1841, md. Abby Hedges, r. Wainscott; ch. 15 
Harriet, 16 Jane. 17 Phebe. 

3 John 6 b. 1789, d. 1841, md. Mary White, r. Wainscott; ch. 18 Cath- 
erine, 19 Fram-e.s, 20 Harriet, 21 Hannah d. y., 22 Marcus D. unmd., 

23 William D. unmd. 

4 Elihu 6 d. 1820, md. Betsv Payne, r. Sag-Harbor ; ch. 28 Charles, 
29 Alfred, 30 Harriet, 31 Mary moved to Plattsburg, N. Y., 32 Betsy, 
33 Samuel d. y., 34 Anna. He left a will dated and proved 1820; re- 
corded in Riverhead. 

5 Fkedeiiick 6 b. 1769, d. 1846, md. Esther Cone; ch. 23i Temperance, 

24 Deroxy, 25 Huldah, 26 Johnson d. y., 27 Perry, r. Sag-Harbor. 

6 Miller 6 d. 1858, md. Betsy Payne (not the same as the wife of Eli- 
hu) ch 35 Reuben lost at sea, 36 Lewis, 37 Henry, 38 John, unm. 39 Mary. 
Letters of adms. of liis estate were granted 1858, at Riverhead. 

7 Stephen 6 d. 1868, md. Bt^tsy Halsey. r. Sag-Harbor, ch. 40 Watson. 
7L Mary 6 b. 1783, d. 1831, md' Elisha Osborn, r. Wainscott. 

11 Esther 7 md. George W. Given, r. State of Maine. 

12 Mary 7 b. 1783, d. 1831, md. Elisha H. Coukliu. 



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in Soi>hiii 7 )) 1813, (1. 1835, uid. David Sjultli, r. Southami)ton. 

14 David A.. 7 b. 1815, d. 1894, md. Margaret Cooper, r. Wainscott; 
cli. 51 Sophia, 52 Margaret. 

15 Jane 7, b. 1809, d. 1889, lud. Joseph Crowell, r. Sag-Harbor. 

1(1 Harriet? b. 1815. d. 1859, ind. James H. Topping, r. Bridge-Hampton 

17 Phebe 7 b. 1818 md. David H. Hvmtting, r. East-Hampton. 

18 Catherine 7, md. John Armstrong, r. Sag-Harbor. 

19 Frances 7 md. r. Sag-Harbor. 

20 Harriet 7 md. William Kickford, r. Sag-Harbor. 

231 Temperance 7 md. 1st Jeremiah Gardiner, 2d Jomes Boyd, r. Sag- 
HarGor. 

24 Deroxy 7 md. Henry Merriweather. r. Sag-Harbor. 

25 Huldah 7 md. David Smith, (the above David Smith) r. Soutliampton 

28 Chakles 7 md. Caroline Hildreth, r. Greenport; ch. 53 Elihu. 

29 Alfeed 7 md. Harriet Miller; ch. 54 Thomas, Sarah who md. Hen- 
ry Havens, and Mary. He went to Cal. leaving his family in Sag-Har- 
bor, came back, and with his wife and Mary went to Plattsburg, and 
died there. 

33 Betsy 7 md. Hallock, r. Stony Brook, L. I. She died and he 

then md. 

34 Anna 7 and continued to live in Stony Brook. 

36 Lewis 7 d. 1860, md. Emeline Pierson, 1831, r. Biidge-Hampton ; 
ch. 51 Keuben, 5G..William, 57 Mary*. 1842 unmd., 58 Emily, 59 Lewis 
M. d. y. 60 Elizabeth. 

37 Henky 7 b. 1811, d. 1894, md. Lucretia Gann, r. Southampton; ch. 
61 Juniatta d. y.. 62 James D. unmd., 63 George unmd., 63^ Eose md. 
and died leaving two children. 

39 Mary 7 md. Almeron Leek, r. Cattaraugus Co., N. Y. 

40 Watson 7 b. 1808, d. 1889, md. Sally W. Edwards (see 26 Sarah, Di- 
vision No. 2) r. Sag-Harbor ; ch. 64 Stephen H., 65 Roger, 66 Caldwell, 
67 Betsy, 68 Lois, 69 Horace. 

51 Sophia 8 b. 1846, md. 1st James Hopping, r. Wainscott; md. 2d V. 
L Bates, r. Sag-Harbor. 

52 Margaret C. 8 b. 1851, md. Elmer E. Halsey, r. Bridge-Hampton. 

53 EiiiHU 8 md. and had children, r. Greenport. 

55 Reuben 8 b. 1833, md. Hannah Corwin, 1854, r. Bridge-Hampton ; 
ch. 90 Evelyn, 91 Isabel M., 92 Harriet, 93 Walter M., 94 Daniel N., 
95 Annie J., 96 Lewis M., 97 Elizabeth, 98 Gertrude. 

56 William 8 b. 1834, d. 1869, md. Abbie G. Glazer, r Wainscett; ch. 
99 George B., 100 Nora Alice who md. Elmer Wright. 

58 Emily A. 8 b. 1844, md. James M. Hedges, r. Bridge-Hampton. 
60 Elizabeth 8 b. 1849. md. Charles Talmage, r. Bridge-Hampton. 

64 Stephen H. 8 b. 1838. md. Mary Matilda Jessup, r. Sag-Harbor; 
ch. 101 Gilbert \V., 102 SarahJ., 103 Irving W.. 104Heniy J., 105 ArthurC. 

65 Roger 8 b. 1839, md. Mary S. Coalbroth, r. Anaconda, Montana ; 
ch. none. 

66 Caldwell 8 unmd. r. Montana. 

68 Lois 8 md. Henry Parker, r. Brooklyn, ch. two sous. 

69 Horace 8 md. Emma Atkins, r. Montana, ch. none. 
Here ends the 8th generation. 



90 Evelyn 9 b. 1856, md. Fi-auk E. Benedict, r. Bridge-Hampton. 

92 Harriet 9 b. 1859, md. James G. Sanaford, 1878, v. Bridge-Hampton. 

93 Walter H. 9 b. 1861, md. Flora Tuttle, r. West-Hampton; ch. 
Hedges L. 



a69 

94 Daniet^ N. !» li. 186.^, nid. Ciirrio H. Field, r. Bridge-Hampton; ch. 
Daniel R.. Willis S.. Ethel M.. Isabel M., Elsie L. 

9fi Lewis M. 9 b. 1866, md. Carrie E. Johnson, r. Sayville; ch. Helen, 
Madaline. 

95 Annie J. 9 b. 1865. md. Orlando Seabury. 1885, r. Bridge-Hampton. 

97 Elizabeth 9 b. 1869, md. Frank Howell, r. Bridge-Hampton. 

98 Gertrude 9 b. 1869. unmd. 

99 Geoege B 9 unmd. He is an engineer, and the last known of him 
he was in Syracuse. N. Y. 

101 Gilbert W. 9 b. 1865, md. Mary Cahill, r. West Phila., Pa. 

Division No. 6. 

106 Joseph 5 b. 1730, d. 1775, md. Elizabeth Edwards; this was prob- 
ably lO-i Elizabeth, Divison No. 1 ; r. Amagausett, eh. 1 John, 2 Henry, 
3 Daniel d. y., 4 Elizabeth. 

1 John 6 b. about 1750. d. 1806. md. Elsie VanScoy, r. Springs: ch. 5 
Nancy, fi Joseph, 7 Rebecca, 8 John D. b. 1800, d. 1«31. unmd. He left 
a will dated 1806, recorded at Riverhead. 

2 Henry 6 b. 1757, md. Ann Edwards, daughter of John Edwards of 
Ligonee, (see 50 John 5 division No. 2) r. Brickkiln (near Sag-Harbor); 
.-.h. 9 Ann, 10 Polly, 11 Daniel, 12 Joseph, 13 Hetty. 

4 Elizabeth 6, md. Jacob Schellinger, r. Amagansett. ' 

5 Nancy 7, md. John Parsons, r. Amagansett. 

6 Joseph 7 b. 1787, d. 1839, md. Rebecca Hicks, r. Springs, ch. 20 Han- 
nah d. y., 21 Mercy Amanda b. 1818, d. 1853, unmd., 22 Daniel, 23 Phebe 
d. y., 24 Samuel, 25 John D., 26 Rebeoca. 

7 Rebecca 7 md. Jeremiah Wilcox. 

9 Ann 7 md. Rufus Payne. 

10 Polly 7 md. Jei-emiah Payne. 

11 Daniel 7 md. Sarah Sherman, r. Sag-Harbor; ch. 27 Esther d. y., 
28 Samuel, 29 Daniel, 30 Elizabeth, 31 Thomas, 32 Joseph, 33 Henry, 
34 George, 35 Maltby who died 1811, 36 Charles d. y., 37 Silas died at 
sea, 38 Sarah. 

12 Joseph 7 md. Mary Thompson, ch. 39 Nathaniel, 40 Lewis, 41 Je- 
hial, 42 William, 43 James, 44 Arnold, 45 Jemima, 46 Mercy Ann, 47 Eliz- 
abeth, 48 Henry, 49 Joseph, 50 Martha. 

13 Hetty 7 md. Sylvanus Squires. 

22 Daniel 8 b. 1820, d. 1865, md. Mary E. Edwards (see 72 Mary E., 
division No. 3) r. East-Hampton, ch. 100 Hannah, 101 Mary A., 102 Pho- 
be S. dead, 103 Angeline d. y. 

24 Samuel 8 b. 1822, unpid 

25 John D. 8 b. 1833, md. Alice M. Edwards (see 112 Alice M. division 
No. 6) r. Springs; ch. 104 Mary R., 105 Daniel R., 106 Phebe A., 107 John 
S., 108 Carrie H, 

26 Rebecca 8 b. 1836, is unmd, and lives with her brother 24 Samuel, 
and their niece 104 Max'y lives with them. 

28 Samuel 8 b. 1798. d. 1884, unmd. r. Wainscott. 

29 Daniel 8 md. Elnora Hamilton, r. North Haven; ch. 109 Charles 
W., 110 Winlield, HI Lawrence; all three live in North Haven unmd. 

30 Elizabeth 8 md. Jeremiah Bone, r. Sag-Harbor. 

31 Thomas 8 b. 1817 md. Mary Squires, r. Bridge-Hampton; ch. 112 
Alice M., 113 Samuel, 114 William, 115 Gilbert, JUiMary, 117 Melvin, 
1 IS Sylvanus. 

:i2 Joseph S b. 1812, d. 1893, ind. Ist Salome Downs, 2d Elizabeth 
U'Noil, r. Bridge-Hampton ; ch. 119 Joseph d. y., 120 George W., ILl 



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Silas E., 122 Nathan W.. 123 Augustus, 124 Emma J., 125 Ella L., 12fi 
Florence. 127 Bertha, 1271 William. 

33 Henry 8 b. 1802, d. 1869, md. Ist Elizabeth Edwards (see 31 Eliza- 
beth, division No. 2), 2d Catherine Osborn, r. Bridge-Hampton; ch. 12S 
Esther, 129 Jesse, 130 Sarah, 131 Charles B. d. y., 132 William d. y., 133 
Phebe, all by 1st wife. 

34 George 8 b. 1808, d. 1850, md. Tabitha Howell, r. Sag-Harbor; ch. 
134 A. Smith, 135 Charles, 1:30 Mary E., 137 Sarah J., 138 George, 139 
Theodore d. y. and Daniel d. y. 

38 Sarah 8 md. Albert Squires, r. Bridge-HaJiiptou. 

39 Nathaniel 8 b. 1799, d. 18(;2, md. Polly Eldridge, r. Sag-Harbor, 
ch. 140 Eliza Jane. 141 Mary Lucy. 

40 Lewis 8 b. 1806. d. 1888, md. Catherine V. Smith, r. Amityville, L. 
I., ch. 147 Saiah Frances, 14S Joseph S., 149 Phebe J., 150 Marv Alice, 
151 Thomas H. d. v., 1.55 Kate V. b. 18.52. d. 1889 uumd., 156 Franklin. 

41 Jehial 8 b. 1821, d. 1888, md. 1st Elizabeth Smith, 2d Nancy Sea- 
mau, r. Moriches, L. I., ch. 182 Frank, 183 John D., 184 E. Gertrude, 
185 Jarvis, 186 Joseph d. y. 

42 William 8 d. about 1883, md. 1st Nancy Gould, 2d Eebecca Wil- 
liamson, r. Moriches; ch. 170 Aianson, 171 Wm. Henry, 172 Betsy, 
173 Hannah, 174 Mary d. y. 

43 James 8 b. 1811, d. 1882, r. Bridge-Hampton, md. Eliza Thompson ; 
ch. 162 James Lewis, 163 Charles N., 164 Arietta, 165 Edmund, who lives 
in Texas, 166 Lucy Jane d. unmd., 167 John, 168 Mary Alice. 169 Anua. 

44 Arnold 8 b. 1815, d. 1867, md. 1st Martha Thompson, 2d Maria 
Miller; ch. 175 Elbert P., 176 Charles N., 177 Louisa H., 178 Oliii M., 
179 Mary. 180 Otis. 

45 Jemima 8 md. 1st William Dix. 2d John Latham. 

46 Mary Ann 8 md. Rogers, r Sag-Harbor. 

47 Elizabeth 8 md. Payne, r. Sag-Harbor. 

48 Henry 8 md. Ann Webb, r. Moriches, ch. 157 Silas, 158 Caroline, 
159 William, 160 Elizabeth, 161 Adelaide. 

49 Joseph 8 b. 1804, d. 18.50, md. Maria Baker, r. Sag-Harbor ; ch. 
142 Joseph, 143 Mary Jane d. unmd., 144 Agnes, 145 Jerusha d. unmd., 
146 James L. d. unmd. 

50 Martha 8 b. 1800, d. 1861, r. Manorville, L. I., uid. 1st William Gor- 
don, 2d Oliver Baynor. 

This ends the 8th generation. 

100 Hannah 9 md. E B. Leek, r. Amagansett. 

101 Mary 9 md. Dr. E. Mulford, r. Bridge-Hampton, see 33 Phebe, di- 
vision No. 3. 

105 Daniel E. 9 b. 1871, unmd. r. Springs. 

106 Phebe A. 9 b. 1873, md. Isaac Lawrence, r. East-Hampton. 

107 John S. 9 b. 1880, unmd. r. Springs. 

108 Carrie H. 9 b. 1875, md. Theodore Hand, r. Amagansett. 

112 Alice M. 9 md. John D. Edwards, (see 25 John D. division No. 6.) 

113 Samuel 9 b. 1848, md. Emma Swain, r. Bridge-Hampton. 

114 William 9 b. 1850, md. Emma Jennings, r. Patchogue, L. 1. ch. 
Catherine W she md. E. J. Car berry, Ellen J., Wickham J., William T., 
Lawrence J. and Hannah E. 

115 Gilbert 9 b. 1855, md. Ada Bennett, r. Sag- Harbor. 

116 Mary 9 md. Albert Jennings, r. Southampton. 

117 Melvin 9 md. Addie Latham, r. Bridge-Hampton; ch. Melvin T., 
Ida M., Benson J., Eunice P., Alice M. 

119 Joseph 9 d. y. 



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120 Geobge 9 b. isns, ind. Hannah W. Foster, r. Southampton; ch. 
Flora and Susan. 

121 SiiiAS E. 9 b. 1800, md. Maggio L. Kay, r. Southampton : ch. Mabel 
A. and Ai'die P. 

122 Nathan 9 b. lSf)2, md. Minnie Wilts, r. Southampton ; oh. Florence 

123 Augustus 9 b. 18(i3, unmd. r. Southampton. 

124 Emma J. 9 b. ISfiX, md. Robert A. Babcock, r. New Haven, Ct. 

125 Ella L. 9 b. 1870. md. Alvin E. Squires, r. Southampton. 
:|.26 Florence 9 b. 1873, md. Edward E. Weeks, r. Babylon, L. I. 
127 Bertha 9 b. 1873, md. Franklin N. Burns, r. Southampton. 
127i William 9, unmd. r. Southampton. 

r28"'Esther 9 b. 1839, md. John Chatfleld, r. Bridge-Hampton. 

129 Jessie 9 b. 1S32. d. 1864, md. Cornelius Bennett, r. Bridge-Hamp- 
ton; ch. William, Jesso and Jerusha. 

130 Sarah 9 b. 1835, md. Oscar Brown, r. Bridge-Hampton. 

133 Phebe 9 b. 1845, md. Asahei A. King. r. Hope Valley, R. I. 

134 Smith 9 b. 1838, md. Sarah A. Jagger, r. Southampton; ch. Mary, 
b. 1863, md. Edwai'd Bowden, r. Brooklyn, George, Charles b. 1865 md. 
Louisa Keeler, Catherine b. 1868, md. Burdett Raynor, Nellie, Ernest, 
Sara E., Anna E., Harry, Frederick, Herbert, Maud H. 

136 Mary Emily, md. John Strong, r. Wainscott. 

137 Sarah J. md. Henry L. Osboru, r. Meriden, Ct. 

138 George 9 b. 1841, d. 1863. 

140 Eliza Jane 9 b. 1829, md. 1st J. E. Glover, 2d Austin B. Booth, r. 
Souihold. 

141 Mary Lucy 9 b. 1832, md. Charles Sherman, r. Vineland, N. J. 

142 Joseph 9 b. 1830, d. 1855, md. Mary Bennett; ch. James L., Mary 
d. y. Josephine d. y. 

144 Agues 9 b. 1824, md. Hiram Bishop, r. Greenport. 

147 Sarah F. 9 b. 1832. md. Nathl. P. Williams, r. Amityville. 

148 Joseph S. 9 b. 1837, md. Hannah Ketcham, r. Amityville. 

149 Phebe J. 9 b. 1839, md. Robert P. Morris, r. Brooklyn. 

150 Mary A. 9 b. 1841, unmd. 

152 Chaeles L. 9 b. 1845, md. Mary Cornelius, r. Amityville, ch. none. 

153 JuiiiT's A. 9 b. 1847, md. Annie Wanser, r. Baldwins, L. I. ch. Ida G. 

156 Fraidvlin 9 b. 1.S54, r. Brooklyn. 

157 Silas 9 md. Kate Carter, r. Moriches: ch. Arthur, Warren, Fred 
and Adiiie. 

158 Caroline 9 md. Henry \"anLe\v. 

159 William 9 md. Sarali Penny, r. Moriclie.--. 

1(;() Elizabetli 9 md. William Howell, r. Bi-idge-Hampton. 

161 Adelaide 9 md. Emmet Cooper, r. Mecox. 

162 James Lewis 9 i). l'<:56,. d. 1S95, uid. 1st Jessup, ch. Herbert, 

lives in Texas, \Vm. deail. Ella: md. 2(1 Sarah Edwards, ch. a son liv- 
ing in Texas. 

163 Charles N. 9, md. Auna Cornelius, r. Amity\ ille, ch. Lucy. 

164 Arietta 9 md. William Hals<\v, Water Mill, L. I. 

167 John 9 I). 1848, d. 1889, md. Li/zie Friend, r. California ; ch. James 
W., Ireua A., Arietta L. 

168 Mary Alice 9, md. Daniel liidlows. r. Southanqiton. 
1()9 Anna 9 md. Vrod Fanning, r. Southampton. 

170 Alanson 9 md. 1st Sarah Rolniison, 2il Frances Pelton, r. Mor- 
iches ; ch. William. 

171 William H. 9 md. Sarah Bishop, r. Moriches; ch. G.iorge, Lucy 
and Kate. 

172 Betsy 9 md. 1st Buel Hulse, 2d Edward Wo-idliull, r. Sayville. 



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173 Hannah 9 md. Jeremiah Jones, r, Patchoij;u(!. 

175 EiiBEKT 9 b. 1843, d. 1874, md. Abby Tiithill, r. East-Hampton ; 
ch. Charles, Jennie. * 

176 Chables N. 9 1845, md. Martha Howell, r. Reed's Landing, Minn. ; 
ch. Elbert P., Maud, Ethel, Susan M. 

177 Louisa H. 9 b. 1851, md. John M. Osborn, r. Wainscott. 

178 OiiiN M. 9 b. 1857, md. Jennie Scheidell, r. Sag-Harbor; eh. Paul- 
ine Revere, Cortland, Maud. 

179 Mary B. 9 b. 1860, md. Hannibal Norris, r. Sag-Harbor. 

180 Otis A. 9 b. 1860, md. Alberta Hull, r. Sag-Harbor; ch. Otis A., 
Harold G., Carrie W., Florence M.. Ermina H., Mary S. 

182 Fkank S. 9 md. Mary L. Oakley, r. East-Hampton ; ch. Nancy md. 
Norman Barnes. 

185 Jarvis 9 md. 1st Jenny Baker; ch. Grace; md. 2d Lucinda Varuy, 
ch. Mary G. 

183 John D. 9 unmnd, r. Sayville. 

184 Gertrude 9 unmd, r. Sayville. 

Division No. 7. 
110 Abbaham 5 b. 1739, d. 1813, md. Elizabeth 1769, r. East-Hamp- 
ton ; 1 David, 2 Mary D. unmd., 3 Betsy, 4 Elsie unmd., 5 Daniel. 

I David 6 b. 1781, d. 1831, md. Esther Barnes, r. East-Hampton; ch. 
6 Abraham d. y., 7 Isaac, 8 Betsy, 9 Mary, 10 Esther, 11 Hannah. 

3 Betsy 6 md. Enoch Fithian, r. East-Hampton. 

5 Daniel 6 bap. 1796, md. r. East-Hampton ; ch. Mary who md. 

Orrin Terry, and Lucy who md. Samuel Davis. 

7 Isaac B. 7 b. 1822, d. 1866, md. 1st Harriet Payne, 2d Helen Payne; 
r. East-Hampton; ch. 20 Charles W., 21 Harriet A., 22 David d. y., all 
by 1st wife. 

8 Betsy 7 md. S. Hedges Miller, who after death of 1st wife married 
her sister. 

II Hannah 7 md. S. Hedges Miller, r. East-Hampton. 

9 Mary 7 md. Albert Hedges, r. East-Hampton. 

10 Esther 7 unmd. 

20 Chables W. 7 b. 1852, md. Melvina Downs, r. East-Hampton ; eh. 
Leroy O. 8, Grace M. d. y., Maud S. 8. 

FILER FAMILY. 

"Samuel Fyler," then so spelled, was in Last-Hampton as early as 
1677-8, and from him the line runs down to the present day. Many of 
this stock have removed from East-Hampton to localities far distant, 
of whom Zephaniah (brother of Thomas the tailor) removed to Troy, N . 
Y. nearly or quite one hundred years ago, where his descendants now 
live. The family has been industrious and aspired to mental culture. 

Thomas the tailor had ch. Theron, and Charles of Sag-Harbor, who 
both left descendants. 

Theeon had ch. born in this order: Samuel F., Mary H., Thomas A., 
George E. and Henry C. \ \m, ^ 

Charles had ch. born in this order: Nancy |^^ Charles f%(, Herbert, 
Ozem, Emmett, T. Alvah, Ada, Harriet, 



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THE DIMON FAMILY. 

Contributed by Teuuis D. Huntting, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and inadvert- 
ently printed out of its alphabetical order. 

In the early records of the town, the name of this family is found 
spelled in various ways, as Diament, Dyamont and Dimond. The last 
few generations have used still another form, viz : Dimon, which is 
now universally the one used by the descendants of the early settler at 
East-Hampton. 

Thomas 1, who came there from Lynn, Mass., in the year 1(360. He 
died in 1683 and his wife in 170(). They had 

1 2 IJames, b. 1646; 

II Thomas, who died in 1754. 
Ill John, who died young. 

James (Thomas 1) b. 1646, d. Dec. 13, 1721. md. 1st Hannah daughter 
of Eev. Thomas James, 1677, she died Sept. 20, 1706 ; 2d Elizabeth 
Dayton, Sept. 25, 1707, who died May 17, 1726. All of his children 
were by his first wife. 

2 3 1 Thomas b. 1680. 

4 II John b. 1696. 

5 III Nathaniel b. — , 

IV Mary md. Matthias Hopping, Aug. 20, 1699. 

V Elizabeth md. John Fithian, Aug. 29, 1699. 
VI Euth b. 1688, d. Oct. 4, 1706. 

Thomas (James 2, Thomas) 1 b. 1680, d. April 18, 1754, md, Hannah Fin- 
ney, Jan. 14, 1707. 

3 I John, bap. Oct. 26, 1707. 

II Rebecca, bap. March 6, 1709. 

III Jonathan, bap. May 11, 1712. 

In 1712 this branch left East-Hampton and settled in Bristol, R. L, 

where there were five other children born to them. 

John (James 2, Thomas 1) b. 1696, d. May 31, 1765, md. 1st Deborah 
Hedges, Dec. 17, 1718, who died Feb. 18, 1722 ; 2d Eliza Davis, 
Dec. 25, 1722, who died Sept. 12, 1729 ; 3d Eachel Dayton, April 
23, 1730, who died Aug. 7, 1762. 

4 I Deborah, bap. Feb. 23, 1724, m. Stephen Conklin Sept. 3, 1747. 
II Elizabeth, bap. Feb. 6, 1726, d. April 4, 1727. 

III John, bap. Sept. 3, 1727. 

IV Elizabeth, bap. Aug. 25, 1731. 

V Eachel, bap. March 31, 1733. 

6 VI Abraham, bap. May 25, 1736. 

7 VII Isaac, bap. May 25, 1736. 
VIH Mary, bap. April 25. 1742. 

IX Eliza H. 
Nathaniel (James 2, Thomas 1.) md. Lois Hedges, Sept. 13, 1721. 

5 I Jonathan, bap. June 18, 1723. 
II Jane, bap. May 2, 1725. 

Ill Lois, bap. July 9, 1727. 
This family left East-Hampton in 1727 and located in Vermont. 
Abraham (John 4, James 2, Thomas 1) b. 1735, d. 1819, m. Hannah dau. 
of Joseph Foster, 1760. 

6 I Abraham, m. Abigail Baker, rem. to Tompkins Co. N. Y. 1796. 
8 II John, b. May 1767. 

III Hannah, unmd. 

IV Polly, unmd. 

Also a number of others who died young. 



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Isaac (John 4, James 2, Thomas 1) bap. May 25, 1736, d. Feb. 16, 1808, 
m. Eunice Foster, sister of his brother Abraham's wife. She d. 
Aug. 4, 1809. 

7 9 1 Joseph, b Dec. G, 1767. 

II Isaac L. 

III David F., no children. 

IV Racliel, bap. Nov. 3, 1784, m. Hedges Parsons. 
John (Abraham 6, Jolin 4, James 2, Tliomas 1,) b. May 1767. d Jan. 13, 
1831; m. 1st Esther dau. of Tliomas Filer, 1792, who died-July 24, 
1824; 2d Betsey Hicks, who after his death married Capt. Henry 
Nickerson, and died July 26, 1874. 

8 I Betsey, b. 1794, md. Jacob Hedges, she died Jan. 22, 1844. 
10 II John, b. May 29, 1797. 

Joseph (Isaac 7, John 4, James 2, Thomas 1) b. Dec. 6, 1767, d. April 3, 
1840; East-Hampton, N. Y. Md. 1st Mary Hedges, Dec. 24, 1799, 
who died May 14, 1820; 2d Hannah Hedges, Sept. 16, 1820. 

9 11 I Joseph Hudson, b. June 23, 1800. 

II David Foster, b. May 9, 1803, d. Feb. 15, 1825. Killed while 

assisting in building his father's barn. 
12 III Charles, b. Dec. 29, 1805. 

IV Nathan Hedges, b. May 15, 1822 ; left East-Hampton in 1848. 

V Hannah Elizabeth b. May 13, 1829; ra. Aug. 30, 1846; d. Nov. 

10, 1849. 
John (John 8, Abraham 6, John 4, James 2, THcmas 1,) b. May 29, 1797, 
d. Jan. 31, 1862 ; m. 1st Hannah dau. of Zachariah Hicks, June 20, 
1819; she was a sister of his father's second wife; she died Aag. 
2, 1826 ; 2d Margaret dau. of Judge Tennis Joraleman, May 23, 
1827, who died July 16, 1882. 

10 I Mary E. b. Oct. 22, 1820, m. J. Madison Hunttini? Aug. 12, 1846 
II Esther A. b. Nov. 20, 1822, d. Sept. 16, 1825. 

III Jane J. b. March 1, 1828, d. May 21, 1895, m. A. B. Davenport. 

IV John, b. Dec. 9, 1830, m. Harriet Church Nov. 1, 1865; moved 

to Hammondsport, N. Y. 

V Elizabeth S. b. Jan. 17, 1834, d. Dec. 15, 1837. 
VI Hannah, b. Feb. 24, 1837, d Aug. 17, 1837. 

VII Margaret, b. Oct. 30, 1838, m. C. E. M. Edwards, of Platts- 
burgh, N. 1'. 
13 VIII Theodore D. b. March 24, 1841. 

IX Tennis J. b. July 20, 1844, d. Feb. 18, 1846. 
Joseph H. (Joseph 9, Isaac 7, John 4, James 2, Thomas 1) b. June 23, 
1800, d. Aug. 22, 1829; m. Mary A. Hopping. After the death of 
her husband she married Asa Miller. 

11 14 I Joseph H., b. 1828. 

Chaeles (Joseph 9, Isaac 7, John 4, James 2, Thomas 1) b. Dec. 29, 1805 
d. July 9, 1878; m. Phebe Smith Lester, May 8, 1827. Eemoved 
from East-Hampton in 1855. 

12 I Mariette Hedges, b. Aug. 14. 1828, unmd. 
15 II David Foster, b. July 23, 1835. 

Theodoke D. (John 10-8, Abraham 6, John 4, James 2, Thomas 1) b. 
March 24, 1841; md. 1st Hannah dau. of Capt. Maltby Cartwright, 
1861 ; 2d Mrs. Harriet F. Oxenham, Oct. 21, 1890. 

13 I John Nichol, b. June 16, 1862, m. May K. Washburo, June 16, 

1887 ; a physician at New London, Conn. 
II Nanie C. b. May 17, 1874, d. Nov. 9, 1875. 



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Joseph H. (Joseph H. 11, Joseph 9, Isaac 7, John 4, James 2, Thomas 1. 
b. March 19, 1828. d. April 17, 1890; m. Mary Theresa Strong, Nov. 12, 
1856; East-Hampton. N. Y. 

14 I Agnes, b. Oct. 13, 1857, d. March 2. 1869. 

II J. Herbert, b. April 17, 1862, d. April 27, 1880. 
David F. (Charles 12, Joseph 9. Isaac 7, John 4, Jameti 2', Thomas 1) b. 
July 23, 1835; m. 1st Amelia Graham Gunn, July 10, 1867; 2d Sus- 
an M. Isaacs, May 8, 1875. Now living in Philadelphia, Pa. 

15 I Charlep Alexander, b. -^une 13, 1868. 

II John Gunn, b. Jan. 30, 1871, d. July II, 1871. 
Ill Howard Pajme, b. Dec. 9, 1879. 



THE FITHIAN FAMILY. 

This genealog}' of the Fithian family is taken, witli little change, 
from Howell's History of Southampton. 

William 1, by tradition the first settler of East-Hampton, was a na- 
tive of Wales, a soldier in Cromwell's army, present at the execution of 
Charles First, proscribed as a regicide, and obliged to flee his country 
on the restoration of Charles 2d. He came to Boston, then to Lynn, 
then to New Haven and to East-Hampton, where he lived and died. 

William 1 had w. Margaret, and d. 1678, and had ch. Martha 2 d. in 
1678, Enoch 2 b. 1646, Sarah 2, Hannah 2, Samuel 2. 

Lieut. Enoch 2 d. Feb. 20, l-'^26-7, had w. Marian Burnett, m. June 
25, 1675; she was b. 1656 and d. ^pril 1, 1717; they had ch. William 3, 
(d. before 1700) Jobn 3, David 3, Aaron 3, Esther 3 bap. 1701, Sarah 3, 
Jo'athan 3 of Philadelphia. 

David 3 had. ch. Eunice 4 bap. 1709, w.- of Howell, Phebe 4 bap. 

1711, Sarah 4 bap. 1713, John 4 bap. 1715 and d. s. p. 

Aakon 3 b. 1684, d. May 1, 1750, m. Bethiah Gardiner Sept. 22, 1714, 

and had ch. Mary 4 w. Talmage. Esther 4 bap. 1701, w. Johnes 

David 4 b. 1728. 

Capt. David 4 d. Sept. 1805, m. Esther Conkling, 1747, who d. Nov. 
24, 1800, 8E> 71 ; they had ch. Esther 5, bap. 1748, David 5, Aaron 5, bap. 
1752, Jonathan 5, bap. 1763 and d. young, Jonathan 5, bap. 1768, Elisha 
5 b. 1774, and Lucretia 5. 

Aaron 5 d. Feb. 2, 1779 and had s. Enoch 6 bap. 1779. 

Enoch 6 had ch. Abraham 7, David 7 of N. Y''ork and dau. Eliza B. 7, 
b. 1808, d. 1892, w. of John N. Hedges. 

Abraham 7 b. 1813, tad w. Elenora and ch. Isabella 8 b. 1842, w. of 
Stafford Tillinghast, Jerusha H. b. 1848, Ella G. 8 b. 1854 and Clara A. 8 
b. 1859. 

Capt. Jonathan 5 bap. 17()8, had ch. Mary 6, bap. 1795, w. of Harvey 
Osborn ; Elizabeth 6 bap. 1795, w. Alfred Pierson ; Jerusha 6 w. Patrick 
Gould ; Jonathan 6 b. 1796 ; Aaron 6. 

Jonathan 6 was teacher in Southampton, assisting in the Academy, 
and long time Justice and Supervisor of the town. He m. Abbie, d. of 
Thomab Sayre, b. 1801, and had ch. Elizabeth 7, w. of Rev. Samuel H. 
Jaggar ; Harriet 7 w. Capt. David R. Drake ; Louisa 7, b. 1830 ; Mary 7, 
b. 1832, 2d w. of Wm. E. Post, Esq. ; Margaret 7 b. 1836, w. of Chas. N. 
Woolley, M. D.. of Newburgh. 

Aakon 6 had w. Mary A. b. 1808, and ch. Mary A. 7, b. 1833 ; Jona- 
than 7, b. 1837 ; William 7, b. 1840 ; Jerusha 7, b. 1843. 

Elisha 5, b. 1774, d. March 7, 1816, m. Zilpah Miller, 1795, and had s. 
Samuel 6 of Southold. 



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Samuel, 6 had s. William Y. 7, b. 1828. 

William Y. 7 m. Sept. 25, 1851, Sarah A. BrowH, b. 1830, and ch. Her- 
bert N. 8, b. 1854, and Annie H. 8 b. i860. 

Samuel 2 b. in E. H. rem. Cohanzie, Cumberland Co., N. J. abt. 1698, 
d. 1702, m. March 6, 1C79, Priscilla. dau. of Thos. and Mary Barnes, of 
E. H. and h.id ch. Josiah 3, b. May 6, 1685; Samuel 3, b. April 17, 1688; 
and two or three other sons and one dau. probably eldest ch. 

Josiah 3 d. April 3, 1741, m. Nov. 7. 1706, Sarah dau. of Ephraim See- 
ley ; they had ch. Samuel 4, b. Oct. 12, 1715 ; Joseph 4, and it may be 
Lot 4 b. March 4, 1728, (but Lot 4 may be son of Samuel 2.) 

Samuel 4 d. Nov. 2, 1777. m. Sept. 3, 1741. Phebe dau. of Ephraim 
Seeley, who d. March 12, 1764, they had ch. Hannah 5 b. Aug. 4, 1742, 
who m. Nathan Leake of Deerfield, and d. Nov. 8, 1842; Eachel 5 b. 
July 7. 1744, and m. Daniel Clarke of Hopewell, and d. Oct. 22, 1822; 
Amy 5 b. July 16, 1746, m. Joseph Moore of Deerfield, and d. Nov. 20, 
1824; Joel 5 b. Sept. 29. 1748; Elizabeth 5 b. Dec. 13, 1750, m. Ephraim 
Seeley and d. Feb. 6, 1788; Mary 5 b. April 1, 1752, m. Joshua Brick of 
Brickbqrough, and d. Nov. 1793 ; Sarah 5 b. March 3, 1754, m. Thos. 
Brown of Hopewell, and d. Nov. 23, 1779; Ruth 5 b. May 25, 1756, m. 
David Bowen, and d. Dec. 3, 1846, and Seeley 5 b. Oct. 15, 1758. 

Joel 5 d. Nov. 9, 1821, m. 1st w. Sept. 3, 1771, Eachel, dau. of Jona- 
than and Anna Holmes, and had 1 ch. ; m. 2d March 4, 1780, Elizabeth, 
dau. of Rev. Charles Beatty, and wid. of Rev. Philip V. Fithian, had ch. 
Josiah 6 of Bridgeton, N. J. b. Sept. 30, 1776, d. July 14, 1842, by 1st w. 
by 2d w. had Charles B. 6 b. Dec. 18, 1782, d. Nov. 21, 1858; Samuel 6 b. 
Feb. 26, 1785, d. Sept. 28, 1806 ; Phillip 6 b. Jan. 20, 1787, d. Jan. 16, 1868 ; 
Erkuries B. 6 b. Aug. 14, 1789. d. May 26, 1816, and Enoch 6 M. D. of 
Greenwich, N. J. b. May 10, 1792. 

Seeley 5 d. March 14, 1819, m. 1st w. Ruth dau. of John and Eliza- 
beth Burgin, who d. Oct. 24, 1793 ; had 2d w. Esther dau. of Bartholo- 
mew and Margaret Hunt, who d. March 29. 1830, had ch. by 1st w. John 
Burgin 6 b. Oct. 1793, and by 2d w. Ruth 6 b. April 7, 1798 ; Reuben 6, 
b. Jan. 20, 1800; Joel 6 b. Oct. 20, 1802; Robert 6 b. Jan. 6, 1805, d. Sept. 
27, 1871. 

Joseph 4 d. Feb. 7, 1772, m. Hannah Vickers and had ch. Rev, Phillip 
Vickers 5, Amos 5, Enoch 5 who d. s. p., Thomas 5 who d. s. p., Phillip 5 
and Jonathan 5. 

Rev. Phillip V. 5 d. s. p. Oct. 8, 1776, m. Elizabeth dau. of Rev. Chas. 
Beatty ; he was a grad. of Princeton College, licensed to preach Dec. 6, 
1774, and chaplain in the Revolutionary w^ar. 

Amos 5 of Cedarville, N. J. had ch. Joseph M. D. 6 of Woodbury, N. J. 
b. 1795, and Joel 6 of Oxford, Ohio. 

Joseph 6 M. D. m. Hetty G. Cattell and had one dau. 

Lot 4, probably s. of Josiah 3, b. March 4, 1728, d. March 29, 1765. had 
w. Judith b. Feb. 14, 1728 and had ch. Glover 5 b. Sept. 20, 1753; Israels 
b. Aug. 13, 1755, d. July 1807; Isaac 5 b. July 20, 1757, d. Jan. 16, 1834; 
Ellis 5 b. March 20, 1761, and Elizabeth 5 b. March 18, 1764. 

Glovek 5 d. May 9, 1809, had ch. Israel 6, of Illinois, who had family, 
David 6, Samuel 6, Rebecca 6, Benjamin 6, and Elizabeth 6. 

David 6 d. 1865, had s. Edwin 7 C. E. U. S. N. 

Benjamin 6 m. Mary Judd and had ch. Freeman J. 7 of New-York, 
Isaac 7 of Buffalo and Maria 7. 



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THE GABDINER FAMILY. 

Winthrop's Journal of Boston, under date of Nov. 28, 1635, recites : 
"Here arrived a small Norsey bark ol twenty-five tons, sent by Lords 
Say, &G. with one Gardiner, expert engineer or work base, and provis- 
ions of all sorts, to begin a fort at the mouth of Connecticut. She 
came through many great tempests, yet, through the Lord's great 
providence her passengers, twelve men and two women and goods, all 
safe." This is an entry at the time, of the arrival of Lion Gardiner in 
Boston in a "Norsey bark," which is the short for "a North Sea Boat." 
Historically the record is valuable, to show the small size of vessels 
then navigating the ocean, compared with those of the present day. 
It clearly shows the designs of the Lords, engaged in founding the 
Colony of Connecticut, ai;d it estaVjlishes the reputation of Lion Gar- 
diner as an "expert engineer," and fixes the date of his coming this side 
of the Atlantic. With him came from Woerden, a town in Holland, his 
wife Mary, daughter of Derike Willemson, whose aunt "was the wife of 
Wonter Leonardson old burgomaster." With him she went to the fort 
at Saybrook, at the mouth of the Connecticut river, and thence In 1639 
to Gardiner's Island, where he established the first English settlement 
in the state of New- York, and thence in 1653 to East-Hampton. 

Curtiss C. Gardiner, Esq., of St. Louis, Missouri, has with great 
learning and deep research, compiled his discoveries regarding the life 
and career of Lion Gardiner, from whom he descended, and has gath- 
ered a full genealogy of the Gardiner family, which has been published. 
I compile this sketch of the family largely from his book, and make it 
the more brief because his record has rescued from oblivion interesting 
knowledge which was perishable. The character and career of Lion 
Gardiner as a large hearted, humane, devout. Christian puritan, patriot, 
warrior and statesman, seeing far in advance of his age, inspired with 
wider conceptions of the teachings of the Great Master, whose large 
benevolence, whose tender sympathy, whose chivalrous friendship, 
whose undaunted courage extorted the admiration and confidence of 
the savage, are forever inscribed on the enduring pages of history. It 
has adorned his memoi'y with the garland of immortality, 

"The greater proportion of the family traced in this volume, have 
moved in the middle walks of life. Generally they have been respected 
citizens. Great honors and large wealth have not been the coipmon 
heritage. On the whole, the family possesses an honorable record of 
both character and achievement." Thus Curtiss C. Gardiner, Esq., 
modestly closes his book entitled "Lion Gardiner and his Descendants." 
He could in justice to the family claim nothing less, and might fairly 
have claimed more. The strong sense of justice, the chivalrous regard 
for honor, the wide, far-seeing view, the g^.nerous heart, the adventur- 
ous enterprise, the good practical judgment, the patriotic impulse, 
that characterized the founder of the family in his Island home, very 
largely were transmitted to his descendants. The voice of detraction 
has sometimes been aimed at the Col. Abraham Gardiner of Eevolu- 
tionary days, who was commissioned and acted under orders from 
British authority, to take from the inhabitants of his own and an adjoin- 
ing town, the oath of allegiance. But he acted in so serving, and they 
acted in so taking the oath, under a compulsion in law and morals, 
avoiding all contracts and all obligations. As a fact those taking tne 
oath were most devoted patriots, and so deemed and so honored by 
their fellow countrymen thereafter. I find no reason to believe Col. 
Gardiner less patriotic than they were, or less so than his own son Na- 



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thaniel, the surgeon of the Eevolution. The world has condemned 
Eastern Long Island unjustly, for yielding to compulsion. When the 
condemning world has suffered, as our forefathers suffered, and exhib- 
ited a loftier patriotism, or more devoted iove of country, we will credit 
the world as it would then merit. Unintentionally, in vindicating the 
good name of Col. Gardiner, I have stated the ground on which, to im- 
partial minds, his cotemporaries of right should be exhonerated. The 
memories of my boyhood and the associations of my manhood plead 
for mention of an old aud time honored friend. Samuel B. Gardiner, 
dec'd, was a schoolmate in Clinton Academy. As a biiy I knew him — 
high souled, sympathetic, social, generous, friendly, by far the most 
effective declaimer of all his cotemporaries. With majestic presence, 
with swelling volume of voice, with impi-essive emphasis, with harmo- 
nious action, with graceful attitude, he- recited selections froni the 
great masters of poetry and eloquence, of ancdent and modern times. 
His declamation was at once the admiration and despair of his school- 
mates. In manhood he developed more decidedly the noble qualities 
promised in his youth. He was the trusted adviser of his townsmen ; 
honored with oflicial position whenever he would consent to accept it; 
twice elected to represent Suffolk County in the Asseml ly of the Em- 
pire State. Inheriting the activities of his father, and the nobility of 
nature that signalized his mother, he was one of nature's noblemen. 
Friend of my youth and maturer years: I can not withold this poor 
tribute to thy name and memory. 
Bbidge-Hampton, March 4th, 1897. 

H. P. HEDGES. 

Lion 1 b. 1599, in England, d. in E. H. 1663 ; first propi'ietor of Gar- 
diner's Island, had w. Mary Willemson and ch. David 2 b. 29 April 1636, 
Mary 2 b. 30 Aug. 1638 ; Elizabeth 2 b. 14 Sept. 1641. It has been claimed 
that David 2 was the first child of English parents born in the Colony 
of Connecticut, and that Elizabeth 2 was the first child of English par- 
ents born in the Colony of New-York. 

David 2 b. 29 April, 1636, d. at Hartford, Ct. 10 July 1689, was the 2d 
proprietor of the Island, excepting that his mother took it from his 
father, and at her death in 1665, devised the same to her son David, 
who had w. Mary Leringham widow, of the "Parish of St. Margaret, in 
the city of Westminster, England." They had ch. John 3 b. 19 Aprjl, 
1661, Davij 3, Lion 3, Elizabeth 3. 

John 3 b. 19 April, 1661, d. at Groton, Ct., June 2. 1738, buried at New 
London, Ct., was third Pi-oprietor, had four wives: 1st Mary dau. of 
Samuel King of Southold, b. 1670, d. July 1707, te 37 ; 2d w. Sarah Coit, 
dau. of John Chandler and wid. of Wm. Coit, who was b. 19 Nov. 1696, 
and d. 3 July, 1711 ; 3d w. was Elizabeth Allyn, b. Dec. 1, 1669, dau. of 
John Allyn, of Hartford, Ct. and wid. of Alexander Allyn, of Windsor, 
Ct. who d. on Gardiner's Island. He m. 4th w. Oct. 4, 1733, Elizabeth, 
dau. of Stephen Hedges, and wid. of Daniel Osborn, who d. May 19, 1747, 
8B 64; ch. by 1st w. Mary, David 4 b. Jan. 3, 1691 ; John 4 b. 1693, grad. 
at Yale 1711 ; Samuel 4 b. 1695 ; Joseph 4 b. April 22, 1697 ; Hannah 4 b. 
Dec. 11, 1699 ; Mary 4 b. Sept. 1, 1702 ; Elizabeth 4 w. of Thos. Greene. 
Ch. by 2d w. Sarah, Jonathan 4 b. 1709; Sarah 4 b. 1710, w. of Charles 
Treat. There were no ch. by 3d aud 4th wives. 

David 4, s. of John 3, b. Jan. 3, 1691, d. July 4, 1751, buried on Gar • 
diner's Island, 4th proprietor, had 1st wife Eachel, dau. of Abraham 
and Joana (Hedges) Schellenger, she d. Dec. 16, 1744 ; had 2d w. Mehet- 



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abel Burrows, widow, of Saybrook, Ct. ; ch. of 1st w. John 5 b. June 9, 
1714; Mary 5 b. Feb. 13. 1716-7; David 5 b. June 3, 1718; Abraham i b. 
Feb. 19. 1721-22; Abigail 5 b. May 1, 1724; Hannah 5 b. Doc. 30, 1730. 

John 5 b. June 9, 1714, d. May 19, 1764. 5th Proprietor, m. 1st Eliza- 
beth, dau. of Matthew and Elizabeth (Chatfield) Mulford, b. Aug. 22, 
1714, d. Oct. 21, 1754, m. 2d Deborah Avery, dau. of Saml. and Deborah 
Lathrop, of Norwich, Ct. and wid. of Eev. Ephraim Avery, of Pomfret, 
Ct. : she m. 3d husband June 3, 1767, Gen. Israel Putnam, was his 2d 
wife; she d. 15 Oct. 1777: ch. of John 5 and Elizabeth, David 6 b. Oct. 
8, 1738 ; Mary 6 b. July 19, 1740 ; John 6 b. June 6. 1745, d. April 22, 1747 ; 
John 6 b. May 19, 1747, who settled at Eaton's Neck ; Elizabeth 6 b. 
June 24, 1749; Jerusha 6 b. Sept. 10, 1751, m. Lewis Osborn ; ch. of 
JohN 5 and w. Deborah, Hannah 6 b. Dec. 31, 1757, m. Saml. Williams of 
Brooklyn, Ct. and d. s. p. ; Septimus 6 b. Dec 28, 1759 and d. s. p. June 
1, 1777. 

David 6 b. Oct. 8, 1378, d. Sept. 8, 1774, 6th Proprietor, grad. of Yale, 
m. Jerusha dau. of Eev. Samuel Buel, b. Nov. 5, 1749, d. Feb. 24, 1782, 
they had ch. John Lyon 7 b. Nov. 8, 1770 and David 7 b. Feb. 29, 1772; 
Jerusha, wid. of David 7 m. 2d Isaac Conkling, and they had son Isaac 7. 

John Lton 7 b. Nov. 8, 1770. d. Nov. 22, 1816, 7th Proprietor, grad. of 
Nassau Hall, m. March 4, 1803, Sarah, dau. of John and Sarah D. Gris- 
wold, of Lyme, Ct., she d. Feb. 10, 1863, they had eh. David J. 8 b. Aug. 
16, 1804, grad. at Yale 1824; Sarah Diodate 8 b. Nov. 1, 1807; Mary 
Brainard 8 b. Dec. 4, 1809, d. s. p. Feb. 22, 1833 ; John Griswold 8 b. 
Sept. 9, 1812, d. s. p. June 7, 1861 ; Samuel Buell 8 b. April 6, 1815, d. 
Jan. 5, 1882. 

David Johnson 8 b. Aug. 16, 1804, d. s. p. Dec. 18, 1829, was the 8th 
Proprietor. 

John Gbiswold 8 b. Sept. 9, 1812, d. s. p. June 7, 1861, was the 9th 
Proprietor. 

Samuel Buel 8 b. April 6, 1815, d. Jan. 5, 1882, was the 10th Proprie- 
tor; he m. Mary G. dau. of Jonathan Thompson of N. Y. who d. Aug. 5, 
1887 ; they had ch. Mary Thompson 9 who m. Wm. R. Sands of N. Y. ; 
David Johnson 9 who became the 11th Proprietor; John Lyon 9 who 
became by purchase the 12th Proprietor and now owner of Gardiner's 
Island ; Sarah Griswold 9 who m. John A. Tyler and left eh ; and Jona- 
than Thompson 9. 

John Lyon 9 m. Coralie L. Jones of N. Y. ; they have ch. Coralie Liv- 
ingston 10, Adele Griswold 10, Lj'on 10, John 10, Winthrop 10. 

Mary 2 dau. of Lyon 1 b. Aug. 30, 1638, m. Jeremiah Conkling, of East 
Hampton, who d. Mareh 14, 1712-13, a3 78; she d. June 15, 1727, te 89; 
they had ch. Jeremiah 3 who was drowned Feb. 24, 1719-20 ; Cornelius 3 
who d. Oct. 30, 1748, se 84; Mary 3 m. Thomas Mulford, she d. June 15, 
1743, 83 85 ; David 3, Lewis 3 and Ananias 3. 

Elizabeth 2 dau. of Lyon 1 b. Sept. 14, 1641, m. Arthur Howell and 
d. Feb. 1657, leaving infant dau. Elizabeth 3, who m. 1674, James Loper 
and they had ch. 

Elizabeth 3 dau. of David 2 ra. James Parshall of Southold, and they 

had ch. Israel 4 who m. Bethiah , David 4 who m. Mary dau. of 

David 3 of Southold. 

David 3 s. of David 2 m. Martha, dau. of Capt. Thomas Youngs, of 
Southold ; he d. May 1, 1733 ; they had ch. David 4 d. March 2, 1748, ee 
43 ; Mary Parshal 4 w. of David Parshall ; Bethiah 4 w, of Samuel 
Wells, Patience 4. 

Lyon 3 s. of David 2 had w. (name not given) who d. Sept. 20, 1733, 
a> about 65. He was accidentally shot Sept. 23, 1723, near Three Mile 



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Harbor, by Samuel Bennett, while huutting deer. They had ch. Lyon 4 
b. 1688, d. 1781, ae 93 ; Giles 4 d. s. p. ; Mary 4 d. May 14, 1714, a? 20, of 
measles ; a child 4 d. 1700-1 abt. 2 days old. 

John 4 s. of John 3 b. 1693, grad. at Yale 1711, m. May 6, 1716, Sarah, 
dau. of Gov. Saltonstall, and resided as a merchant in New London, 
and d. Jan. 15, 1724-5, and had cli. Elizabeth 5 m. John Allen of Enfteld, 
Ct. ; Jerusha 5, and another dau. and s. both of whom d. y. 

Samuel 4 son of John 3 b. 1695, d. May 24, 1729, m. Eiizabeth Coit, 
dau. of John and Mehetabel Coit, of New London, b. March 22, 1704, d. 
Oct. 1, 1725 ; Samuel 4 is called Capt. ; they had ch. Elizabeth W. 5, w. 
of David Gardiner 5, s. of David 4, fourth Proprietor, and Samuel 5 
merchant in New London, with his cousin David 5, d. March 10, 1776, 
se 53. had w. Abigail dau. of David Gardiner 4th Proprietor, and they 
had several ch. one Samuel 6 b. Oct. 10, 1758 d. s. p. Feb. 1, 1787. 

Joseph 4 s. of John 3 b. April 22. 1697, d. May 15, 1752, ge 55 ; he m. 
Sarah Grant of Windsor, Ct. b. Jan. 8, 1S99-1700 and d. Sept. 17, 1754; 
he settled in Groton, Ct. ; they had ch. Mary 5 b. Aug. 30, 1730, m. May 
18, 1749, Joseph Gallup of Stoningtou, Ct., he d. Feb. 18, 1778, as 55, she 
d. July 12, 1802 ; they had ch. Joseph 6, Sarah 6, Joseph 6, Mary 6, 
John 6, Lucretia 6, Phebe 6, Gardiner 6, Jonathan 6, Esther 6, Gurden 6. 
John 5 b. 25 Sept. 1732 ; Joseph 5 d. Aug. 31, 1732, an infant, Jonathan 5, 
Sarah 5 d. Feb. 1739, se 24 days, William 5 b. 5 Sept., 1741. 

Hannah 4 b. Dec. 11, 1699, dau of John 3, d. Jan. 5. 1738-9, in Worces- 
ter, Mass. m. John Chandler, b. Oct. 18, 1693, of Worcester, Mass; they 
were m, Oct. 23, 1716, by John Mulford, Esquire, and had cb. Mary 5, b. 
Sept. 9, 1717, m. Feb. 7, 1736-7 Benjamin Green, of Boston, Mass. and 
had ch. Benjamin 6, Hannah 6, John 6, Max-y 6, Lucretia 6, Sarah 6 and 
Gardiner 6, who was b. Sept. 23, 1753, and m. 1st Nancy Beading, 2d 
Elizabeth Hubbard, 3d Elizabeth C. Copley, dau. of John Singleton Cop- 
ley, the artist, and sister of the late Lord Lynd hurst, of England. 

ESTHEB 5 b. May 23, 1719. 

John 5 b. Feb. 26, 1720-1, m. 1st March 4, 1740-1, Dorothy Payne, of 
Worcester, Mass. ; he m. 2d June 11, 1746, Mary Church, of Bristol, R. I ; 
his dau. Lucretia 6 by 2d w. b. June 9, 1765, m. Eev. Aaron Bancroft, b. 
Nov. 10, 1755, of Worcestor, Mass. and their dau. Eliza 7 m. John Davis 
of Worcester, Mass., Gov. of Mass., &c. and their son G(^orge 8 b. Oct. 
3d, 1800, historian of the United States. 

Gardiner 5 b. Sept. 18, 1723; Sarah 5 b. Jan, 11 1725-6, Hannnah 5 
b, Feb. 21, 1727-8; Lucretia 5 b. July 18, 1730; Katharine 5 b. March 28, 
1735 ; Elizabeth 5 b. Jan. 5, 1732. 

Mary 4 dau. of John 3, b. Sept. 1, 1702, m. June 28, 1720, Dr. Ebenezer 
Gray, b. Oct. 31, 1697, of Boston, Mass. They settled in Lebanon. Ct. ; 
she d. July 27, 1726, and they had ch. Samuel 5, John 5, and Mary 5. 

Elizabeth 4, dau. of John 3, m. Thos. Green of Boston, and they 
had one ch. Mary 5 b. May 1, 1734, who m. Daniel Hubbard, of New 
London, and their dau. Elizabeth 6 m. Nov. 25, 1786, Gardiner Green, 
b. Sept. 23, 1753, for his 2d w. 

Jonathan 4 son of John 3 and Sarah his w. b. 1709, d. 1753, m. Mary, 
only dau. of Eev. Eliphalet Adams, b. March 5, 1713-14, he settled in 
New London, practiced medicine, and left only child John Gardiner 5, 
b. Oct. 7, 1734, m. Jan. 5, 1766, Sarab dau. of Edward and Sarah Palms, 
settled in New London, and d. there March 1, 1776 ; his wid. d. April 6, 
1830; they had ch. Sarah 6 b. March 10, 1767, m. Dec. 10, 1783, Jeremiah 
G. Brainard, and they had .- everal ch. one of them John G. C. Brainard, 
b. Oct. 21, 1796, d. s. p. Oct. 26, 1828, called Connecticut's poet; Lucre- 
tia 6 d. s. p. March 15, 1842 ; Mary G. 6 d. s. p. Dec. 31, 1858. 



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Sarah 4 dau. of John 3 and Sarah his w. m. Oct. 12, 1727, Chas. Treat 
and they^had ch. Sarah 5 b. Fob. 2i, 17'28-9 ; Dorothy 5 b. April 15, 1731 ; 
Jonathan 5 b. Nov. 12, 1732; Abigail 5 b. Nov. 2f, 1739; Kachel 5 b. 
Sept. 25, 1743. 

Maey 5, dau. of David 4 and Rachel his w. b. Feb. 13, 1716-17, m. Sam- 
uel, son of Rev. Nathl. Hunttiug, of E. Hampton: he was a merchant 
in Southampton ; she d. s. p. May 2.S, 1745. 

David 5, s. of David 4 and Rachel his w. b. June 3, 1718, d. Jan. 17, 
1779, m. Elizabeth, only dau. of Samuel Gardiner of E. Hampton ; she 
d. Oct. 13, 1772; both buried at New London, Ct. ; David grad. at Yale, 
1736 ; they had ch. David 6 b. 1742, d. s. p. ; Mary fi b. 1744, m. Dr. Thos. 
Coit, of New London, Ct., for his 2d w., they had 9 chil. ; Elizabeth 6 m- 
Ledjard, of Groton. Ct. ; Lucrctia ij d. s. p. 

Abraham 5, s. of David 4 and Rachel, 4th Proprietor, was b. Feb. 19, 
1721-2, m. June 12, 1745, Mary, dau. of Nathl. and Phebe Smith, descen- 
dant of Richard of Smithtown ; he was Col. before the Revolution, and 
so called, and a zealous supporter of the measui-es of the Continental 
Congress ; they had ch. Mary G b. Oct. 6, 1746 ; Rachel 6 b. Jan. 22, 1750-1 
m. 1st Major David Mulford, s. of Col. David Mulford of E H. who d. 

Jan. 8, 1799 ; they had ch. David 7, Richard 7, Henry 7, and 7 w. of 

Col. Samuel Miller: Phebe 6 b. Jan. 5, 1756, d. s. p." Sept. 18, 1775; Na- 
thaniel G b. Jan. 11, 1759, d. March 25, 1804; he was surgeon in the Rev- 
olution, &c. m. Elizabeth Dering of Shelter Island, who d. March 18, 
1801. 86 40; they had ch. Maria S. 7 b. 1784, d. Nov. 9, 1804; Robert 
Smith 7 b. Sept. 10, 1786, grad at Yale 1807, d. s. p. Jan. 19. 1824 ; Eliza- 
beth Packer G b. June 4, 1788, m. Reuben Bromley of N. Y.. he d. Aug. 
3 , 1860, se 81, she d. Aug. 7, 1863. ss 75, both d. s. p ; Abraham 6 b. 25th 
Jan. 1763. 

Abigail 5, dau. David 4, 4th Proprietor, b. May 1, 1724, m. her cousin 
Samuel 5 s. of Samuel 4. 

Hannah 5, dau. of David 4, 4th Proprietor, b. Dec. 30, 1730, m. May 
21, 1748, Dr. Joshua Lathrop, of Norwich, Ct., she d. s. p. July 24, 1750. 

Mary G b. July 19, 1740, dau. of John 5, 5th Proprietor, m. 1st Rev. 
Elijah Blague, and 2d, Dec. 1, 1762, Rev. Stephen Johnson, of Lyme, 
Ct. for his 2d w. and they had ch. one s. and one dau. she d. Dec. 10, 1772 

David 7 b. Feb. 29, 1772, s. of David 6, grad. of Nassau Hall, Gth Pro- 
prietor, m. 1st July 7, 1796, Julia dau. of James Havens, of Shelter Isl- 
and, b. May 30, 1771, d. July 3, 1806, he d. April 6, 1815 ; he m. 2d. 1808, 
Lydia Dann, b. Feb. 12, 1785, of Stamford, Ct; she m. 2d Charles W. 
VanRanst, and d. Dec. 14, 1886, iB 101 yrs. 10 mos. 2 dys: David 7 and 
1st. w. Julia had ch. Charles 8 b. May 7, 1797, rem. to Chester. Ohio, 
and m. Aug. 29, 1821, Lucy, dau. of Levi Stedman, of Stedman's Mills, 
Ohio; they had ch. all of whom d. iu infancy; he d. at Chester, Ohio, 
March 12, 1827; David 8 b. Jan. 1, 1799; John Lyon 8 b. June 27, 1801. 
d. s. p. Sept. 3, 1824. 

David 8 s. of David 7 and Julia his w. b. Jan. 1, 1799, m. Feb. 20, 1820 
Marietta, dau. of Abel Huntington, M. D. of E. H. b. Oct. 9, 1800 ; he 
was an M. D. and employed iu the Custom House in N. Y. 26 years, and 
early in life a teacher in Clinton Academy; always scholarly aud studi- 
ous; he d. Feb. 25, 1880; his wid d. Feb 1, 1882; both buried at Bridge- 
Hampton ; they had ch. Frances Lee 9 b. May 30, 1821, m. Oct. 15, 1856, 
Rev. Carlton P. Maples, who d. Jan. 19, 1879, his wid. d. s. p. March 21, 
1890 ; John Lyon 9 b. May 6, 1«23. m. 1st July 19, 1848, Mary E. Osborne, 
b. Oct. 8, 1825, she d. May 11, 1865, he m. 2d Nov. 12, 18G7, Mary E. 
Jackson, b. March 19, 1847 ; pracLisiug physician now residing at Bridge- 
Hamptou; Charles Huntington 9 b. June 10, 1826, m. Sept. 26, 1865, An- 



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na E. dau. of John Leunon, of Cairo, N. Y. b. Oct. 30, 1834; he is an 
Episcopal clergyiruin and Rector of St. Luke's church at East-Hampton, 
but resides in B. Hampton ; thev had bon David 10 b. Marcli 11, 1869, 
d. Oct. 10, 1869. 

John 6 b. May 19. 1747, of Eaton's Neck:, m. 1st Sept. 9, 1771, Joana 
Conivling, b. Dec. 8, 1745, she d. Sept. 30, 1809 : he m. 2d Eachel, dau. of 
Col. Abraham Gardiner 5 and wid. of Major David MuHord ; she d.Feb. 

25, 1811; he m. 3d Hannah ( Havens) wiJ. who d. May 26. 1813, se 

51; he d. May 29, 1813 8b'66; iu 1792 he purchased Eaton's Neck, had ch. 
by 1st w. only Matthew 7 b. March 27, 1772, Jonathan 7 b. Aug. 13, 1773, 
Elizabeth 7 b. July 18, 1775; John H. 7 b. Sept. 7, 1777, m. Dec. 12, 1804, 
Abigail Skid more, b. May 23, 1781, she d. March 2, JSGl, he d. June 9, 
1854, he was farmer and later light house keeper of Eaton's Neck and 
had ch. Joana C. 8 b. Jan. 3, 1806, Mary A. 8 b. Aug. 8. 1807, Benjamin 
T. 8 b. Feb. 1, 1810; Sarah A. 8 b. Jan. 19, 1816; Caroline P.. 8 b. May 17, 
1813 ; Jeanette 8 b. May 1, 1818 ; Phebe 7 b. June 8, 1779 ; Mary 7 b. June 
6, 1784, d. Feb. 16, 1860, m. 1st Gordon King; m. 2d Henry C. Mather; 
Jerusha 7 h. May 3, 1786, m. Azel Lewis; Phebe7 b. July 10, 1789, d. 
Oct. 20, 1780; Abigail 7 b. May 18. 1782, d. July 13, 1793, m. Feb. 6, 1817, 
Henry C. Mather b. July 2, 1791, of Brookhaven ; shed. Aug. 1, 1830; 
they had ch. Henry 8, b. Aug 1, 1818; Marv 8, b. April 18. 1821; Joanna 
8, b. Jan. 27, 1823; John G. 8,'"i.. Nov. 29, 1824; Phebe 8, b. April 18, 1830; 
Henry C. Mather m. 2d Jan. 1, 1831, Mary, sister of his 1st w. and wid. 
of Gordon King. 

Matthew 7, of Eaton's Neck, b. March 27, 1772, m. March 12, 1796, 
Phebe Bunce; he d. Aug. 3, 1831; she d. May 9, 1838; th"iy had ch. Or- 
lando Hallam 8, b. Nov. 20, 1798, d. April 11, 1876, m. Nov. 7, 1822, Han- 
nah Brj'ant, had ch. Edmund Bryant 9 b. Aug. 27, 1823 ; Louisa Augus- 
ta 9 b. Sept. 1, 1825, m. Jacob P. Carl for his 2d w. ; Joel Bunce 8 b. July 
10, 1800, m. April 27, 1820, Frances E. dau. of Alexander Smith ; he d. 
Feb. 1, 1849; they had ch. Geo. A. 9, Cornelia E. 9, Alexanders. 9, 
Charles 9, Francis 9 and John M. 9. Mathew Haniman 8 b. Mav 9, 1802, 
m. March 7, 1825, Martha A. Lewis; he d. Sept. 17, 1840; ch. Julia 9, 
Martha A. 9 m. James Smith, of N. Y. ; Abigail Coukliug 8 b. Sept. 4, 

1804, m. Jan. 30, 1828, Solomon C. Lewis: she d. Dec. 1, 1883: they had 
ch. Egbert G. 9, Gloriana C. 9, Mary J. 9. David Mulford 8 b Nov. 25, 

1805, d. untu. May 27, 1827: Ebeiiezer Bryant 8 b. Oct. 19, 1807, d. unm. 
April 26, 1842; Jane Hicks « b. June 10, 1809, m. Jan. 19, 1831, Joel S. 
Bryant; she d. Dec. 19, 1840 ; they had ch.-Ebenezer 9. David G. 9. 
Jerusha Amanda 8 b. April 27, 1811, d. unm. Feb. 3, 1829; Martha A. 8, 
b. Nov. 2, 1812, d. unm. Feb. 3, 1830; Mary E. 8 b. Jan. 12, 1814, d. unm. 
Nov. 23, 3835; Phebe C. 8 b. Feb. 13, 1816, m. Edward H. Brush: John 
L. 8 b. May 13, 1817, m. Adelia Whitmore; Nancy S. 8 b. Dec. 2, 1819, 
m. Piatt Lewis; Sarah F. 8 b. May 1, 1820, d. unm. March 7, 1839. 

JoNATHAU 7 of Eaton's Neck, b. Aug. 13, 1773, d. March 7, 1833, grad. 
at Yale 1795, had. w. 1st Sally dau. of John and Phebe Gelston, who d. 
Sept. 10, 1803: he m. 2d May 1, 1813, Fanny (liysam) Peck, wid. of Dr. 
Peck, she d. April 12, 1849, te 57 ; he had cli. by 1st w. Albert Gelston 8, 
b. Aug 6. 1803, d. unm. Dec. 22, 1842, and by 2d w. had ch. Eliza Grace 8 
b. Oct. 13, 1815. m. July 12, 1834, Chas. H. Jones of Cold Spring; they 
had 4 ch ; she d. Sept. 27, 1871 ; Fanny Peck 8 b. Sept. 9, 18i7, m. John 
D. Shelton, of Jamaica, he d. Dec. 10, 1862, they had 5 ch ; Geo. Conk- 
lin 8 b. June 21, 1819, m. Jan. 5, 1843, Mary C. Bryant, she d. May 21. 
1888, 03 65 y. 1 m. 20 d., had one ch ; Fanny Rysain 9 who m. Henry 
Rrush ; Wm. Grace 8 b. Mareh 29, 1821, m. Aug. 30, 1846, Mary Scudder 
who d. Feb. 13, 1885, -m 59 y. 10 m. 8 ds., ch. Nannie \' . N. 9 in. Joseph H. 



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Raymond, M. D. of Brooklyn, thoy had one dau. Nannie (t. 10 b. Oct. 8, 
1876 ; Mary E. 9 m. Juno 20. 1S72, James B. Bach, of Brooklyn, ch. Mary 
G. 10 b. Jan. 26. 187-1, James B. 10 b. Nov. 17, 1879. Louise G. 10 m, D. 
Willis Jaraes. of Brooklyn; Nancy R. 8 b. March G. 1823, m. Sept. (■, 
1842, John I. VauNostrand and reside in Brooklyn, ch. John 9 m, Louise 
Leonard of Brooklyn, he d. leavin.t,' wid. ami son John J. VanNostrand 
10; Sarah M. 9 m. George H. Marvin, M. D. of B)-ooklyn, have 3 ch ; 
Gardinei- 9 m. Anna B. Stanton, have 2 ch., reside at Newb irg, N. Y. ; 
Sally Gelston 8 b. Jan. 9, 1827. 

Elizabeth 7 dau. of John 6 of Eaton's Neck, b. July 18, 1775, m. 
March 23. 1800, Sam). Fleet, b. Aug. 12. 1768, of L. I., she d. Sept. 3, 
1813, he d. Nov. 22. 1823, ch. Jonathan Gardiner 8 b. May 7, 1801, m. 
March 5, 1831, Lydia Seaman, he d. March 1.5, 1887, was resident of N. 
Y. city. ch. Sarah Cornelia 9 b. Jan. 17, 1832, m. June 1. 1852, John W. 
Uuderhill. ch. Gardiner F. 10 b. March 22, 1854, Tracy 10 b. Nov. 26, 
1855, Harriets. 10 b. Tan. 2tt, 1861, Stanton W. lO b May 5. 1863: Har- 
riet Rebecca 9 b. Nov. 4, 1833. m. June 23, 1855, Edward Strong of N. 
Y. : Maria Bonney 9 b. Aug. 8, 1836, m. Oct. 19, 1859. Edward M. Banks 
cf N. Y. who d. June 30, 1868 : they had eh. Lydia S. 10 b. Aug. 13, 1860, 
Emily E. 10 b. Dec. 10, 1862. Theodore H. 10 b. Dec. 23, 1866, Jane 
Louise 9 b. June 27. 1838, m. April 8. 1858, David B. Keeler of New 
York, ch. Annie Haven 10 b. Aug. 29, 1861, Edward Banks 10 b feb. 7, 
1866, Elizabeth C. 10 b. Oct. 10, 1871. William Harrimau 8 h. Dec. 27, 
1804, d. May 5, 1854., Joanna Maria 8 b. Nov. 6, 1809, d. Aug. 25, 1813. 

Abbaham 6 s. of Col. Abraham 5 b. Jan. 25, 1763, m. May 31, 1781 Phe- 
be Dayton and d. Oct. 12. 1796; called Capt. Abraham; they had ch. 
Abraham 7 b. April 6, 1782, David 7 b. Mav 2. 1784, Mary 7 b. Nov. 3, 1786 
Samuel Smith 7 b. May 5. 1789, Xathaniel 7 b. Feb. 23, 1792, m. Elizabeth 
Stensin, he d. Sept. 8, 18.56. se 64, she d. oune 14, 1842. ic 49 : he was mer- 
chant in N. Y. had ch. John Bray 8 b. Sept. 9, 1821, grad. at Yale 1840, d. 
Sept. 11, 1881 ; Wm. Henry 8 b. Dec. 28, 1822, grad. at N. Y. University, 
M. D. in Brooklyn, d. Jan. 7, 1879, Mary Frances 8, Elizabeth 8, Har- 
riet H. 8, Mary Frances 8. 

Abraham 7 s. of Capt. Abraham 6 b. April 6, 1782, m. Oct. 25, 1809, 
Abby b. July 11, 1786, dau. of Elisha Lee, of Lyme, Ct., was farmer in 
E. Hampton, rem. in 1820 to what is now called New Hartford, Oneida 
Co. N. Y., he d. there Feb. 27, 1827. his Avid. d. there March 23, 1877, 
they had ch. James L. 8 b. Dec. 5, 1810, Samuel S. 8 b. Nov. 10, 1812, m. 
Nov. 1. 1837, Elizabeth Xieoll of Shelter Island and d. in New Hartford, 
N. Y. Marcii 21. 1873, leaving. a wid. and 3 sons and 3 daus; Mary F. 8 
b. Dec. 23, 1814, m. Nov. 1, 1833, R. Hazard of New Hartford, and they 
have 2 daus: Gertrude M. 8 b. June 25, 1817, m. March 15, 1870, J. A. 
Sherrill of New Hartford, she d. Oct. 10, 1878; Harriet L. 8 b. Dec. 10, 
1819, d. Feb. 17, 1841. Abraham S. 8 b. Nov. 15,1822, d. te 11 weeks, Juli- 
ette L. 8 b. Oct. 8, 1824. 

Davij) 7 s. of Capt. Abraham 6 b. May 2, 1784, grad. at Yale 1804, law- 
yer, m. 1816 Jiilianua dau, of Michael McLachlan of N. Y. he was Slate 
Senator and author of the "Clironicles of East-Hampton," and d. by the 
exjdosion of a gun on the U. S. steam Frigate Princeton, on the Potomac, 
Feb. 28. 1844; his wid. d. Oct. 4, 1864, on Stateu Island; her will con- 
tested is rep<irt<Hi in 35 N. Y, R. p. 559; they had ch. David Lyon 8 m. 
Sarah dau. of David Thompson of N. Y. and have 3 ch. ; Alexander 8 d. 
unm. 1851; Juliana 8 m. June 26. 1844, John Tyler, President of the U. 
S , his 2d w., he d. Jan. 18, 1862. in iiichmond, Va., she d. July 10, 1889, 
in Richmond, Va. ; they had ch. David G. 9, John A. 9, Julia 9, Lach- 



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Ian 9, Lyon G. 9, Kobeit Fitz Walter 9, Pearl 9 ; Margaret 8 m. John H. 
Beekman of N. Y. and d. leaving an infant s. Harry 9. 

Mai.y Smith 7 dau. of Capt. Abraham 6 b. Nov. 3, 1786, m. Sept. 27, 
1811. Phillip Gilbert Van Wyck, of Sing Sing. N. Y. she d. July 30, 1858, 
he d. Aug. 1, 1870: they had ch. Joanna 8, Cathei'ine 8, Phillip Court- 
land 8, Eliza 8, Gardiner 8, Ann VanRensaeller 8, Pierre Courtland 8, 
David 8, of whom Catherine, Eliza and Ann only left descendants. 

Samuel Smith 7 s. of Capt. Abraham 6 b, May 5, 1789, d. at Shelter 
Island March 21, 1859, he m. 1st Mary Catherine dau. of Ezra L'Hom- 
luedieu of Shelter Island, she d. Jan. 28, 1838, 8s51; he m. 2d Feb. 28, 
1844, Susan Mott, wid. of N. Y. ; he was lawyer and one of the secreta- 
ries of the N. Y. State Constitutional Convention of 1821 ; he had ch. by 
1st w. only. Mury L'Hommedieu 8 b. Sept. 2, 1824, Phebe 8 b. Aug. 13. 
1826, both of whom became the 1st and 2d wives of Prof. Eben N. Hors- 
ford, of Cambridge, Mass., who left by them descendants; Francis Eli- 
za 8 b. Aug. 31, 1832, m. 1857 George Martin Lane, of Cambridge, Mass. 
he d. 1870, they had ch. Gardiner M. 9 b. 1858, Louisa Greenough 9 b. 
1860, m. 1880 Bayard VanRensaellaer, Katherine Ward 9 b. 1862. 

William 5 s. of Joseph 4, b. Sept. 5, 1741, m. April 6, 1761, Esther dau. 
of Daniel and Esther Dennisou, of Stonington, Ct. where he then lived 
and about 1793 rem. to Chenango Forks, N. Y. and d. there March 31, 
1800; he had 9 chil. all of whom left descendants, one of them Daniel 
Dennison 6 had s. Lyman 7 who had s. Curtiss C. 8 b. in Eaton, N. Y. 
Dec. 1st, 1822. who is the Author of the book entitled "Lyon Gardiner 
and his Descendants," to whose industry, ability and research I am in- 
debted for the main facts of this genealogy. 

David 2, 2d Proprietor, had s. David 3 who resided in Southold, who 
had s. David 4, who had s. John 5 M. D. of Southold who had s. James 6, 
who had sous Capt. Harry 7, Augustus 7, William 7 and Pollj' 7 w. of 
Benjamin F. Rogers ; Capt. Harry 7 of Quogue had s. Henry, now living 
there, who has w. and ch. 

Lyon 3, who was shot hunting deer, as before stated, had s. Lyon 4, 
b. 1688, d. 1781, as 93, who m. Hannah dau. of John and Puah Merry, of 
E. Hampton, had s. John 5 b. 1722. d. 1780, jb 59, who had s. John 6 b. 
1750, d. at Moriches July 30, 1799, ee 48, had w. Esther dau. of Abraham 
and Esther Hedges and wid. of Aaron Fithian, and they had ch. John 
David 7 b. Jan. 2, 1781 ; Abraham Hedges 7 b. Dec. 20, 1783 ; Aaron 
Fithian 7 b. 1786, m. Martha dau. of Lathrop and Abigail Pope, of 
Northumbei'land, N. Y. he was M. D. and settled at Keysville, Essex 
Co.. N. Y. and had ch. Lathrop Pope 8, Wm. Livingston 8, Thomas Jef- 
ferson, M. D. 8 and dau. d. young. Esther 7 b. 1790 m. Steven Hedges, 
of Hillsdale, N. Y. and they have ch. Steven 8, William 8, George 8 and 
Nathan 8. 

Eev. John David 7 b. Jan. 2, 1781, m. 1st Frances dau. of Abraham 
Mulford of E. H. Feb. 18, 1800, she d. March 23d, 1814; he m. 2d Nov. 20, 
1814, Mary dau. of Saml. L'Hommedieu and wid. of Nathan Cook; he 
was educated at Clinton Academy, grad. at Yale 1804, pastor of Presb. 
church in Sag-Harbor from Oct. 2. 1812 to June 5, 1832. and d. there 
Sept. 13, 1849. and his wid. d. Nov. 16, 1860; by 1st w. he had ch Charles 
Fox 8 b. Dec. 10. 1801, m. Sept. 23, 1823, Eliza A. Corey ; be was a mer- 
chant, d. Jan 12, 1840; they had cti. Charles Adrian 9 b. July 21, 1824, 
m. May 25, 1846, Caroline Cooper, had dau. Nettie M. 10 w. of Edgar 
Wade, s. Wm. C. 10 b. Aug. 29, 1852; Nancy Maria 9 b. July 14, 1«27, d. 
March 9, 1845; James Madison 9, he had' w. and they had s. Chas. F. 
10 M. D. at Crested Butte, Col. Fanny Mulford 9 b. Sept. 15, 1831, d. 
unm. Oct. 18, 1856 ; Henry Havens 9 b. Aug. 1835, resides in California 



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and left ch. Caroline E. 9 b. Nov. 11, 1837, m. July 6, 1859, Oscar F. 
Stanton b. July 18, 1834, Admiral in the U. S. Navy, and they have ch. 
Fanny Gardiner 10 b. Oct. 18, 1867 : Elizabeth 10 b. Sept. 3, 1875 : Caro- 
line H. 8 b. July 24, 1805, m. March 1, 1832, Capt. Nathan H. Cook and 
they have ch. James Madison 8 b. Feb. 17, 1810, d. unm. April 3, 1836, 
ch. by 2d w. Saml. L'H. 8 b. 3 Sept. 1815, d. Sept. 25, 1815, Saml. L'H. 8 
b Aug. 30, 1816, m. Oct. 1, 1842, Annie Shaler ; he grad. at Yale 1835, 
lawver, d. Aug. 2, 1885, his wid. d. May 3, 1886 and had ch. Geraldine 
S. 9^ William S. 9, Josephine L'H. 9, John C. 9 ; John D. 8 b. July 23, 1818, 
had w. Mary Starr, he d.' Feb. 14, 1875 and they had 1 s. Charles Starr 9, 
b. June 2, 1847 ; Frances M. S. 8 b. June 25, 1820, m. Henry L. Gardiner, 
her cousin, and they had ch. Marcia Belle 9 and Elizabeth 9 ; Ezra 
L'H. 8 b. Sept. 4, 1822, m. Euth dau. of Elijah Terry, they had ch. Mary 
L'H. 9, Frank H. 9 b. Sept. 11, 1850, d. Aug. 30, 1851, Frank H. 9 who m. 
Helen F. dau. of Geo. F. Koot and they have ch. Cornelius S. 9; Abra- 
ham S. 8 b. July 19, 1824, grad. at N. Y. University, 1.847, minister at 
Greenport, L. I. and elsewhere ; Howard C. 8 b. Sept. 17, 1826, had wife 
and children. ^„ __ 

Abbaham Hedges 7, s. of John 6 b. Dec. 20, 1783, m. June 27, 1816, 
Hannah M. Mulford ; he d. Sept. 12, 1861 in Sag-Harbor, was Sheriff of 
Suff. Co. 1821 to 23, 1829 so 31, and mem. of Assembly of N. Y. in 1828 
and 1853, was merchant in Sag-Harbor, had ch. Catherine Esther 8 b. 
May 4, 1817, m. 1st Silas W. Edwards of Sag-Harbor, Capt. who d. at 
sea, m. 2d Courtland Starr who d. et New London, Ct. : Henry L. 8 b. 
July 20, 1819, had w. Frances M. S. Gardiner his cousin, and they had 
ch. as aforesaid ; Mary Elizabeth 8 b. Sept. 18, 1822, m. Jan. 9, 1844 
Gilbert H. Cooper and they had ch. Haunah G. 9, Kate W. 9, Gardiner 
Duane 9, Abraham G. 9 ; Robert Emmett 8 b. Oct. 29, 1826, d. in Califor- 
nia Feb. -2, 1886 ; Cornelia Ann 8 b. Aug. 29, 1828, m. Dec. 25, 1855 Eras- 
tus Rogers, of Sodus. N. Y. and they have ch. Thomas Abraham 8 b. 
Nov. 9, 1831, d. unm. in California Oct. 1, 1862. 

THE HAND FAMILY. 
Contributed by Clifford A. Hand of New-York City. 
/ John Hand 1 was a native of Kent County, a land owner in the par- 
' ishes Punbridge and Ashford, in that County. He signed himself "yeo- 
man," and thus was ranged in that sturdy class, which was the true 
strength of England and which made her power invincible on many 
famous battle fields. The first distinct trace of him in America was in 
March, 1(344, when he was enrolled in the 3d ward of Southampton, 
Long Island. He was one of the little company, who soon took up the 
land adjoining Southampton on the east, and planted there the new 
settlement, first called by them Maidstone, and now East-Hampton. 
He was one of the nine original patentees or grantees of East-Hampton. 
In 1657 he was one of the delegates to Hartford, Connecticut, for the 
purpose of bringing East-Hampion under that government, and for the 
further purpose of having goodwife Garlick tried on charges of witch- 
craft. Her acquital was presumably by consent of the delegates, and 
probably not r.-ally objectionable to their fellow townsmen. 

John Hand 1 is understood to have died on or about Jan. 24, 1660. 
His wid. Alice afterward m. Capt. Codnor. The inventory of his estate 
included 1 great Bible, 2 small Bibles, 1 Psalm book. 1 fowling piece, 1 
carbine, 1 pistol and 2 swords. His ch. appear to have been John 2, 
Stephen 2, Joseph 2, Shamgar 2, Benjamin 2, Thomas 2, James 2 and 
Mary 2. Mary 2 m. Charles Barnes, the first principal of, or teacher in, 



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the school at East Hampton. Of the sons above named John 2 rem. from 
E. Hampton after 16G3 and d. before 1687. There is no further trace of 
him. Joseph 2 another s. in 1662 m. Jane Wright of Guilford, Ct. , He 
settled there and became the ancestor of the New England branch of 
the family, members of which are scattered throigh the west, and one 
of whom, George E. Hand of Detroit, was at one time Judge of the Su- 
preme Coux-t of Mich. Three other sons, Shamgar 2 who ni. a Piersou 
of Southampton, Benjamin 2 who m. Elizabeth Whittier of the sanie 
place, and Thomas 2, participated in the settlement of the Cape May 
region of N. J. Their descendants are still found in N. J. and Penn. or 
through emigration from these states. Josiah 3 .".. of Shamgar 2 d. in 
Southampton in 1739, leaving a will in which he mentioned his sons 
David 4, Matthew 4 and Thomas 4, and daus. Mary Muliord 4. Johanna 
Flint 4 and Sarah 4. Stephen 2 and James 2 wei-e thus the only sons of 
John 1 who remained in E. Hampton, and who carried forward the fam- 
ily name there. 

Stephen 2 was named in the Indian deed of E. Hampton in 1660. He 
d. April 15, 1693, leaving a will dated May 17, 1688 and therein named 
his w. Rebecca and sous Stephen 3, Joseph 3 and Samuel 3 and 5 daus. 
Stephen 3 d. Nov. 13, 1740, aj 79, and leaving ch. Stephen 4. who m. 
Elizabeth Dollafer Dec. 21, 1745, and d. leaving ch. 

James 2 b. about 1651. m. 1st dau. of Nathaniel Bishop (who d. May 2, 
1704) and 2d Elizabeth Dibble. He d. Nov. 13, 1733. He was grantee in 
deed from Thos. Hand in 1679 and 1697. and in 1712 he granted to his s. 
Nathaniel 3 12 acres at Wainscott. Among his ch. appear to have been 
James 3, Nathaniel 3, Elias 3 and Esther 3. Ellas 3 b. abt. 1700, m. 1st 
Esther Osborn, she d. April 25, 1727, he m. 2d Experience Miller. His 
ch. appear to have been Phebe 4. Lemuel 4 and Elias 4, \^ ho was Cap- 
tain of a company in the French war and participated in the attack up- 
on fort Ticonderoga under Gen. Abercrombie, and in the capture of 
Crown Point under Gen. Amherst. 

James 3 m. twice, 1st wife d. June 17, 1727, and he m. 2d llebecca, 
dau. of Lieut. John Wheeler; he d. 1761 and left will dated Oct. 19, 1754 
and under which VVm. Hedges and Timothy Mulford were Aduiiuistra 
tors ; ch. by 1st w. James 4, Samuel 4, Ezekiel 4, Desire 4, Mary 4 and 
Sarah 4; ch. by 2d w. Jeremiah 4, Rebecca 4 and Desire 4. Jeremiah 4 
by his fathers will took the homestead. 

James 4 m. Nov. 13, 1735, Mary Hand and had ch. Jeremiah 5, James 5 
and Elizabeth 5 ; he d. Oct. 1757 leaving will dated Oct. 19, 1757, his wid- 
ow and Job Pierson executors. Upon his tombstone, at Wainscott, is a 
poetical effusion testifying to his faith, patience and piety ; the will de- 
vises to S.James 5 lands in E. Hampton and Southampton and witnessed 
by Elias Hand and Elias Hand, Jr. 

EzEKiEii 4 m. Dec. 14, 1737, Johanna dau. of Hezekiah Miller ; they 
had ch. Samuel 5 b. Jan. 1761, Nehemiah 5 and Experience 5. First 
' dau. Desire 5 d. young, Mary 5 m. a Thorn and Sarah 5 m. John Tal- 
mage, Jr. 

Samuel 4 s. of James 3 d. before Oct. 19, 1754, the date of his father's 
will, which refers to his deceased s. Samuel's 4 children, not naming 
them. By tradition his death occurred by drowning, when he was 
about 40 years of age, and at a place outside of E. Hampton, where he 
was actively engaged in business. He was bap. with his bro. James 4, 
Oct. 2, 1709. He is believed to have been the 1st husband of Elizabeth, 
dau. of Ammi Ruhama Rusco (s. of Nathaniel Rusco and Elizabeth Hal- 
sey his w.) Among the issue of this marriage were Nathaniel 5 b. April 
7, 1739, Abraham 5 b. abt. 1741, Esther 5 b. May 7, 1743, who m. 



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Edwards, and Nathan 5 b. May 14, 1747, who is reputed to have been a 
posthumous son. The wid. Elizabeth was left in straitened circustances 
by the sudden death of her husband, and is said to have maintained 
her family by teaching school in the village of E. Hampton, and to 
have been a woman of energy and intelligence, as well as of piety. She 
ra. for 2d husband David Coniilin, by whom she had s. David, who rem. 
to Dutchess Co. Surviving him she m. Christopher Dibble. Surviving 
this third husband she returned to E. Hampton and was cared for by 
her s. Abraham Hand 5 and then by her s. Nathaniel Hand 5, in whose 
house she d. at an advanced age. 

Nathaniel 5 m. Esther dau. of Samuel Mulford and Zerviah Gonklin 
his w. and d. at E. Hampton March 14, 1820 in his 81st year, and had 
ch. Esther G b. 1764, Elizabeth 6 b. 176fi, Mary (i b 1769, Mulford 6 b. 
1771, Eebecca 6 b. 1774 and Nathaniel 6 b. 1776. Esther 6 m. Benjamin 
s. of Sineus Coukling and was the mother of Judge Alfred Conkling and 
grandmother of Senator Roscoe Conkling. Elizabeth 6 m. Nathaniel 
Bunce of Smithtown ; Mary 6 m. John Saxton of same place ; Eebecca 6 
m. David Coukling of Amagansett 

Mulford 6 m. Mary dau. of Thos. Baker and had ch. Charles K. 7, 
Caroline 7 who m. Henry Schellenger, Harriet 7 who m. Talmage Barnes, 
William C. 7 b. 1805. Augustus 7 of :aooklyn who m. Susan Van Pelt, 
Alfred 7 of Boston, Mary 7 t^ ho m. George N. Stretton, and Jane 7 who 
m. Jonathan Stretton. Mulford d. at Amagansett Feb. 1855 se abt. 80. 
Chaeles E. 7 son of Mulford 6, of Amagansett, had w. Betsey Sher- 

rill, b. 1797, and ch. Eliza C. 8 b. 1720, w. of Cartwright, Geo. L. 8 

b. 1821, Nathaniel 8 b. 1824, Eliza 8 w. of Mulford, Charles 8. Joan- 
na 8 wid. of Jeremiah Hunttiug, Fanny 8 w. of Benjamin H. Barnes. 

Capt. Geokge L. 8 son of Charles E. 7 m. Harriet dau. of Ihomas J. 
Mulford and had ch. Clara M. 9, Thomas J. 9, Hannah M. 9; the two 
former have ch. 

Nathaniel 8 m. Phebe E. dau. of Jeremiah Conkling and had ch. 
Theodore H. 9, George C. 9, Charles S. 9 and Elizabeth 9. 

William C. 7 b. 1805 had w. Nancy and dau. Mary 8 born 1833, w. of 
James S. Havens of B. Hampton, and they have ch. 

Nathaniel 6 b. Jan. 26, 1776, s. of Nathaniel 5, d. 1862, m. Ist Eliza- 
beth dau. of Thomas Baker and had ch. Thomas B. 7 b. March 11, 1803, 

Juliette 7 w. of Charles H. Miihu-; liad 2d w. Mulford and they had 

ch. Marcus B. 7 b. AutJ. 1824. 

Capt. Thomas B. 7 of Bridge-Hampton d. July 26, 1873, had w. Har- 
riet E. dau. of Nathaniel and Luciuda Hedges, and ch. Henry C. 8, 
Maurice 8, Orlando H. 8 b. Nov. 11, lb26, and Elizabeth 8 b. Nov. 29, 
1828, w. of Wm. H. Lester, D. D. and they have ch. Eev. Wm. H. Jr., 
Nathaniel and Essie. 

Oklando H. 8 has w. Elizabeth dau. of Benjamin F. Howell and ch. 
Harriet E. 9, Fannie 9, Lucretia 9, Nathaniel H. 9, Floi-ence 9 and Min- 
nie 9. Florence 9 m. Levi D. Halsey, M. D. and they bave ch. 
Nathaniel H. 9 has w. Grace, dau. of Thomas Vail. 
Abraham 5 s. of Capt. Samuel 4 m. 1st a Miss Hedges and 2d her sis- 
ter, and had ch. Abraham 6 bap. 1766 and rem. to Ovid, N. Y. and had 
s. Ovid 6 and Eleazar 6. 

Eleaztjk 6 of E.Hampton m. Catherine McGowan and had ch. Capt. 
George 7 b. 1813 and Catharine 7 who d. unm. 

Capt. Geoege 7 b. 1813 ni. Abigail, dau. of Henry White of Sagg, and 
had ch. George H. 8 b. 1857 and John ^\ hite 8 b. 1865. 

Nathan 5 m. Anna dau. of Cai)t. Isaac Barr.es and had ch. Samuel 6, 
Isaac Barnes 6, Nancy 6, Frances 6, Hannah 6, Augustus 6, Julia 6, Na- 



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than 6 and Henry 6. His narrow means induced him to emigrate, in 
1792, to the town of Shoreham, Vermont, on the eastern shore of lake 
Champlain, opposite Fort Ticonderoga. This new wheat bearing region 
had been made familiar to Capt. Barnes by his service in the French 
war. By reason of infirm health he transferred the burden of his affairs 
to his eldest son, but was zealous in building up the church of which 
he was deacon. In the history of Shoreham, by Rev Thos. F, Good- 
hue, it is recorded of him that "he served his day and generation faith- 
fully, and is held in grateful remembrance by those who are intimately 
acquainted with him." Hed. at Shoreham, May 26, 1811, te 64, and his 
wid. a. July 14, 1M2, se 63. Of his ch. Isaac Barnes 6 m. Lucinda dau. 
of Capt. Danes of Sag-Harbor, and rem. to Albany and d. there in 1810 ; 
Nancy 6 m. Capt. Wm. Clark and resided with him in Brooklyn ; she d. 
there June 23, 1850; Hannah 6 m. Abraham Bishop of Ct. and d. March 
9 1813 ; A.ugustus 6 ra. Sarah Herbert Post and d. at Ferrisburg, Ver- 
mont, April 18.51. He had a varied career as ship master and merchant 
and finally as farmer. One of his sons, Augustus 7, was a physician at 
Morris, 111. One of the sons of his wife (by her 1st husband) was the 
celebrated clergyman Dr. Trueman Post, of St. Louis, Missouri. Julia 
Hand m. Erastus Baruum and d. at Shoreham Feb. 14, 1855; Nathan 6 
d. July 4, 1812 ; Henry 6 d. in childhood. 

Capt. Samuel 6 (eldest s. of Dea. Nathan 5) became at an early age 
mate of the ship, of which his brother-iu-law, Capt. Clark, was master 
and part owner. He was l?a'gely instrumental in the change of resi- 
dence of his father from E. Hampton to Shoreham. In association with 
Capt. Sherman (who afterward established the 1st line of steamboats 
on Lake Champlain,) he planned and prepared for an extensive bisi- 
ness upon and along the Hudson river, but he abandoned these plans, 
at the summons of his father, and thereafter devoted himself to the 
care of the latter and of the Shoreham farm. When the British milita- 
rj and naval forces threatened the valley of Lake Champlain. during 
the war of 1812, he marched to Plattsburg in command of about 192 
men, and his company, a battalion, is said to have included every able 
bodied male in the town. He married March 4, 1801, Elizabeth dau. of 
Eev. Kichard Sill, of Granville, Washington Co., N. Y. and d. at Shore- 
ham' Sept. 13. 1845. Their ch. were Richard C. 7, Augustus C. 7, Nancy 
Augusta 7, Susan Amelia 7, Eliza Aon 7 and Hai-riet 7. 

Rev. Richakd C. 7 b. Jan. 21, 1802 was twice m. but survived wife 
and ch. and d. at his residence in Brooklyn July 1870 d. s. p. Nancy 
Augusta 7 b. Dec. 17, 1806, m. Dr. Nelson G. Chipman and d. Aug. 1876, 
in Cleveland, Ohio. Susan Amelia 7 b. Oct. 31, 1810, d. at the home- 
stead in Shoreham, Dec. 31, 1«84. Eliza Ann 7 b. Aug. 20, 1813, d. at 
the same homestead Feb. 22, 1893. Harriet 7 b. July 15, 1818, m. Louis 
Doolittle and d. June 3, 1842, at Belvidere, 111. 

AUGUSTUS C. 7 b. Sept. 9, 1803, m. Marcia Salome, dau. of Samuel 
Northrup and d. March 1878 in his 75th year. Educated under the pri- 
vate tutelage of Professors of Middlebury College and at the law school 
of Prof. Gould of Litchfield, Ct. he was admitted to the bar at the May 
term in 1830. He established his office at Crown Point, in Essex Co. on 
Lake Champlain, but. rem. to Elizabethtown the shire town of that 
county, on his appointment to the office of Surrogate April 15, 1831. 
He -was elected to Congress in 1838, but shared the general defeat of 
his party in 1840. In 1844 he was elected to the old Senate of the State 
when that body (with certain Judges) constituted the Court of Final 
appeal. As Senator, he was chairman of the Judiciary committee 
which, in 1847, framed the legislation requisite to adopt the adminis- 



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tration of justice to the new constitution of 1846. Among the labors 
of his committee was the division of the State into 8 judicial districts, 
a division which has never since been disturbed. He was one of the 
Judges first elected to the Supreme Court, as reorganized by this con- 
stitution, and served for the term of 8 years, from 1847 to 1855, the last 
year of such service being as a member of the Court of Appeals. The 
purity, integrity and ability, and devotion to duty, which characterized 
his judicial career, were recognized and respected throughout the State 
but the sudden uprising of what was known as the "know-nothing" 
party, and the violence of political feeling led to his retirement from 
the bench. Thereafter until his death, he continued the practice of his 
profession at Elizabethtown. The ch. of Judge Augustus C. 7 were 
Clifford 8, Samuel 8, Ellen 8, Marcia 8 and Richard 8. Ellen Salome 8 
m. Matthew Hale, now of Albany, and d. Oct. 10, 18G7 ; Marcia Augus- 
ta 8 m. Jonas C. Heartt, of Troy, and d. July 12, 1862. The three sons 
were all grad. from Union College, Schenectady, and all followed the 
profession of their father. Clifford A. 8 has been lor many years and 
still is a member of the bar of N. Y. city ; Eichard Lockhart 8 succeeded 
to his father's office and practice at Elizabethtown, and is one of the 
most eminent advocates in northern New-York. 

Samuel 8 b. at Elizabethtown May 1833, rem. to Albany where he be- 
came the junior of the law fii-m of Cagger, Porter & Hand. In Jan. 
1865, upon the elevation of Judge Porter to the bench, he began his ca- 
reer as advocate before the Court of xVppeals. In the language of Chief 
Justice Euger, on the occasion of his death, (as reported 102 N. Y. Re- 
ports) : "he stood in the front rank of his profession and had attained 
high honor in both professional and judicial employments. * * His 
forensic efforts were always distinguished by thoroughness of prepara- 
tion, perfect and expert knowledge of the case in hand, a close and 
comprehensive appreciation of the legal questions involved, and of the 
reason and philosophy of the rules bearing upon them, a logical and 
felicitous method of arragement and presentation. His unexpected 
death, occurring in the prime of life, was deeply felt by the Court, and 
must universally be regarded as a great loss to the public as well as to 
the profession which he elevated and advanced." He was reporter of 
the Court of Appeals from 18B9 to 1872. He repeatedly declined im- 
portant offices, tendered him by Govs. Tilden, Robinson and Cleveland, 
respectively, but in 1878 he became Judge of the Court of Appeals, by 
unsolicited appointment of Gov. Eobinson. This appointment was wel- 
comed as an ideal one, by the press of both parties, in all parts of the 
State. The hostility of Tammany Hall to the Governor and his friends 
was, however, so bitter, that the name of Judge Hand was withdrawn 
from the nominating convention of his party, and at the end of the year 
1878, he lefc the bench and resumed his position at the bar. He was 
an accomplished scholar, not only in his profession but in the general 
field of science and literature. He died at his residence in Albany, 
May 1886, and was survived by his w. Lydia and two ch. Lydia 9 w. of 
Dr. Henry Hun, and Billings Learned 9. 

James 4 who in. Mary Hand, Nov. 13, 1735, and d. Oct. 1757, resided 
at Waiuscott. See ante. 

James 5 of Waiuscott, s. of James 4, had w. Rebecca Chase, of Nan- 
tucket, and they had ch. Ahira 6, who rem. to Sag-Harbor and left ch. 
Euel who d. young and left dau. Maria? who m. a Sayre and rem. to 
N. J. ; Zimri 6 who had w. and ch. and James 6 b. Feb. 28, 1765. 

James 6 b. Feb. 28, 1765, d. Nov. 25, 1828. a) 63, had w. Chloe dau. of 
Jouathan Osborne, of Waiuscott, she b. Feb. 26, 1767, d. Nov. 3, lb43, 



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they m. June 1790 and had ch. Sylvester 7 b. June 1791, who had w. 
Frances Spooner and ch. James 8, Maria 8, France? 8, Emma 8 and Al- 
den 8 ; they rem. to Kahimazoo, Mich. ; he d. iSept. 22, 1856 : Mary C. 7, 
called Polly, b. June 1792, d. unm. Feb. 13, 1876: James 7 b. Feb. 7, 1794 
rem. to Green Bay, Wis. ; John 7 b. Dec. 2. 1795. d. at sea unm. July 25, 
1826; Ruel 7 b. June 16, 1797, d. Oct. 14, 1835. had w. Prudence Piatt 
and eh. Harriet 8 w. of Hickford Conner, and Pollen 8 who m. Caleb Da- 
vis ; Matilda 7 b. Jun. 2, 1800, d. unm. March 9, 1847 ; Fanny 7 b. March 
30, 1803, m. Sylvanus Strong and d. Nov. 13, 1861; July 7 b. Aug. 28, 
1709, d. unm. Sept. 13, 1833; Miranda 7 b. April 1807, m. Chauncey Os- 
born and left ch. ; Elizabeth 7 b. Jan. 27, 1812, d. Sept. 26, 1856, m. 1st 
James H. Scott, m. 2d Baldwin Sherman, and they left ch. Albert 7 
b. Feb. 19, 1805. 

Albeet 7 b. Feb. 19, 1805, d. Jan. 14, 1807 had w. Charity, dau. of 
Jared Hedges and w. Euth (Noi'ris) Hedges, b. May 28, 18.18 and d. Feb. 
1872 ; they were m. Jan. 11, 1842 and had ch. John H. 8 b. Feb. 21, 1843 ; 
George A. 8 b. April 7, 1846 d. s. p. Oct. 21, 1871 ; Henry C. 8 b. Dec. 30, 
1848, rem. to N. London, had w. and d. : Charles H. 8 b. March 6, 1»52, 
d. s. p. Sept. 25, 1881; James C. 8 b. Jan. 20, 1855, has w. Elizabeth and 
ch. Lillian 9, Fanny 9, Julia 9, William 9, Clarence 9 and Geox'ge 9 ; Ja- 
red E. 8 b. June 28, 1861, has w. Lydia Chatfield ; Julia A. 8 b. Sept. 15. 
1864, m. Frederick J. Miner, of New London, Ct. 

John H. 8 b. Feb. 21, 1843 m. Helen A. dau. of James L. Sandfoi'd of 
Bridge-Hampton, and they have ch. James Howard 9 b. Feb. 25, 1871, 
who has w. Sadie A. Winters, m. Oct. 9, 1893 ; John Clinton 9 b. June 9, 
1878 ; Helen May 9 b. May 1, 1885. 

JosiAH 3 s. of Shamgar 2, s. of John 1, settled in Bridge-Hampton and 
had s. David 4. 

David 4 had s. David 5 and perhaps other ch. 

David 5 had ch. Josiah 6, Isaac 6, David 6, Silas 6, Gideon 6, and per- 
haps others. Of these Josiah 6 was in tbe army with Washington in 
the Hevolutio'i and resided at the Brick Kilns. Isaac 6 commanded a 
Privateer which sailed out of Sandy Hook and was never heaid from 
thereafter. He left a dau. w. of Mr. Napier, and her son is Alexander 
D. Napier, Esq., of Brooklyn, N. Y. Capt. David 6, of like Revolution- 
ary days and fame, settled in Sag-Harbor. Silas 6 and Gideon 6, of 
Bridge-Hampton, left descendents Andrew J. 8 grandson of the latter, 
Nathan P. 8 of the former. 

Capt. David 6 of Sag-Harbor (the old Revolutionary hero) had sons 
Capt. Forrest D. 7 and Capt. David 7, and daughters wh m. James Pier- 
son, Oliver Slate, Abraham Vail and Capt. Jereii;iah Sayie, who all left 
descendants. One of them, Capt. David P. Vail, grandson of Capt. 
David 6, verifies the foregoing statements. 

THE HEDGES FAMILY. 
Savage writes "one William Hedges, of Hampton. L. 1. 1650, may 
have been fi-eem. of Mass. 1034." This sums up ail his knowledge on 
subject. George K. Howell, the historian, finds liis name on no pass- 
enger list and intimates that he ma3 have left England without lioyal 
permission. The name is often spelled Hodges, and I think the William 
Hodges named as one of the Company who belonged to the settlement 
of Taunton, Mass., in 1643, is tlie same one named as Hedges, in East- 
Hampton at an early date. See memoirs of Plymouth Colony, Vol. II, 
p. 267. In 1675 John Hodges there succeeded to his father's light and 
Henry Hodges to the rights that was John Gallup's; ib. p. 279. 



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Steven 2 son ofWilliam 1 had son .Tohn 3, looking like it. Those may 
be eh. of Ihe lirst "William. As an early setth^r of East-Hampton, it is 
probable he was from the same localitj' in England, with th(^ same po- 
litical and religious opinions, and like thoughts and aims. Nothing in 
the records seems otherwise. He was constable in 16G3. His will is 
dated March 17, 1G72-3, and witnessed by Thos. James, was approved 
Nov. 17. 1674. The inventory of his estate amounted to 193£, 12s, 6d. 
See records of Suffolk Co. p. 40. The will names his wife Rose, his eld- 
est son Steven, his son Isaac, and mentions without naming, his four 
daughters. 

, William Hedges 1 d. 1674, w. Kose and ch. Stephen 2 b. Jan. l()34-5, 
'Isaac 2 and 4 daughters. 

; Stephen 2 d. Jnlv 7, 1734, ch. John 3 b. 1670, Daniel 3 b. 1677, Wil- 
liam 3 b. 1680. d. Nov. 4, 1768, se 88. 

John 3 b. 1670, d. Jan. 9, 1737, oe 67, m. Kuth Stratton. His will dated 
Jan. 31, 1733-4, names only ch. Stephen 4 and Lemuel 4, but the church 
records mentions ch. Mary 4 bap. Dec, 17, 1699 ; John 4 bap. Jan. 18, 
1701-2; Stephen 4 bap. June 6, 1702; Sarah 4 bap. Aug. 26, 1705; Lem- 
uel 4 bap. Oct. 5, 1707, d. Oct. 15, 1708: Abigail 4 bap. June 17, 1711; 
Daniel 4 bap. Oct. 5, 1712 ; Lemuel 4 bap. Aug. 29, 1714. 

John 4 d. March 2-3, 1786, se 84, m. Dec. 4. 1723, Elizabeth Talmage, 
and haa ch. John 5 bap. 1724 (who d. s. p. 1742) ; Josiah 5 bap. March 13, 
1726: Elizabeths bap. March 10, 1728; Daniel 5 bap. July 1742; Mary 5 

bap. Oct. 11, 1730, w. of Isaacs, and Ruth 5 bap. Nov. 11, 1733, w. 

Howell. 

Daniel 5 had ch. Jerusha 6 bap. Nov. 8, 1767. Stephen 6 who rem., 
Daniel 6 bap. April 11, 1772, Elizabeth 6 bap. July 7, 1776, John N. 6 b. 
Feb. 22, 1783, d. 1856, Lucinda 6 bap. July 12, 1778 and Josiah 6 bap. 
April 1770. 

John N. 6 had w. Eliza B. Fithiau b. 1808, d. 1892, and ch. Harriet 7 
bap. 1832, and John D. 7 b. 1839. 

John D. 7 had wife C. Isabella Homau and s. Daniel H. 8 b. 1871; d. 
1894. 

Note.— Deeds in possession of Edward Osborn show that in 1760 a 
Stephen Hedges resided in Morristown, Morris Co., N. J. 1799 Jona- 
than Hedges, physician, resided in Newburg. H. P. H. 

William 3 b. 1680, d. Nov. 4, 1768, m. Abiah Mulford March 2, 1705, 
(but his will dated Jan. 28, 1765 mentions w. Zerviah) had ch. William 4. 
bap. March 31. 1706, Hannah 4 bap. May 30, 1708, Mary 4 bap. Oct. 8, 
1710, Jereniiah 4 bap. March 1, 1713, David 4 bap. Jan. 9, 1715, Abiah 4 
bap. June 30. 1717, Ezekiel 4 (of Patchogue) bap. Oct. 18, 1719, Lewis 4 
bap. July 22, 1722, Stephen 4 baj). Nov. 1, 1724. 

William 4 had ch. William 5 b. Dec. 4, 1737 and Thomas 5. 

William 5 d. Feb. 16, 1815, m. Mary Chattield Nov. 4, 1761, had ch. 
William 6 of Lansinburgh, N. Y. b. Feb. 3, 1776, Col. David 6 b. June 14, 
1779, Jane 6 b. Aug. 27, 1782 and John Chattield 6 b. Dec. 4. 1770, d. Nov. 
10, 1798. 

Col. L'amu Cm. 1st Nanc^ Miller, dau. of Huntting Millei, May 1, 
1809. who d. March 19. 1811.iic 27, m. 2d Esther dau. of Jeremiah Osborn 
Deo. 14, 1815. and had s. Dr. John Chattield 7 who m. Esther Mulforo, 
dau. ol J oi. at ban B. Mulfoid ; Col. David 6 d. Jan. 1, 1857, a; 77, and w. 
Esther c. Oct. 25. 1868, a- 81 ; John Chattield 7 b. Sept. 2, 1821, d. s. p. 
Oct. 7, 1877. 

Jeeemiah 4 a. Oct. 14, 1738 a.- 25 m. Jerusha Multord, April 13, 1736, 
bhe d. May 21, 1742, ae 28 ; they had ch. David 5 bap. Oct. 30, 1737. 



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Steven 4 m. Jan. 1, 1748-9 Mary Miller and had ch. Jane 5 bap. 1762, 
Capt. David 5 b. Sept. 8, 1762, Joseph 5 b. Dec. 31, 1767. 

Capt. David 5 b. Sept. 8, 1762, d. 18-16, se 84, had w. Phebe Tillinghast 
and ch. Stafford 6 b. Sept. 1786, Stephen 6b. Sept. 21, 1790, and Betsey 6 
b. Aug. 1795. 

Stephen 6 b. 1790, d. 1877 as 86, had w. Esther Miller, b. 1790. and ch. 
William H. 7 b. May 3, 1813, Stephen L. 7 b. July 13, 1815, Mary M. 7 b. 
May 31, 1818, Nathan M. 7 b. Feb. 21, 1822, Betsey 7 b. Dec. 25, 1823, 
George 7 b. March 19, 1828. William H. 7 and Nathan M. 7 settled in Cal- 
ifornia and have sons ; William H. 7 has s. Stephen 8 and Nathan M. 7 
has s. Edward D. 8. Mary 7 m. Capt. Jeremiah Mulford, Betsey 7 m. 
Edward Dayton, and both have ch. 

Stephen L. 7 m. Minerva Cartwright March 28, 1841. Note. — He was 
the war Supervisor of the town. He was deeply intereslsed in the pub- 
lication of this book, which he was destined not to see in this life. 
While it was being printed he died, Jan. 14, 1897.] They had ch Fran- 
ces G. 8 b. June 30, 1842, David E. 8 b. Jan. 10, 1844, Stephen L. 8 b. 
March 31, 1846, Henry D. 8 b. Nov. 14, 1854, William A. 8 b. May 2, 1857, 
Nellie M. 8 b. June 7, 1859. David E. 8 d. April 22, 1859, Nellie M. 8 d. 
Sept. 28, 1863. Frances G. 8 m. Albert M. Payne and they had s. John 
H. 9 ; Stephen L. 9 m. Julia Bassett, of Derby, Conn, and they had ch. 
David E. 10, Frances 10, Sarah M. 10. Stephen L. 10 and Harry 10, who 
all d. in infancy except Stephen L. 10 now 18 years old ; Henry D. 8 m. 
Ellen dau. of Capt. Ezekiel Howes, and they have ch. Fannie P. 9 b. 
Sept. 14, 1875, Henry H. 9 b. July 28, 1885, Phillip L. 9 b. June 20, 188» 
and d. Sept. 1888. 

William A. 8 b. May 2, 1857, m. Mary Stratton in 1884; no ch. 

George Hedges 7 b. March 19, 1828, m. 1st Phebe D. dau. of Ezekiel 
and Fanny Jones, who d. Maj^ 19, 1856, se 24 years ; they had ch. Fanny 
J. 8 b. July 7, 1851 and George J. 8 b. March 30, 1856 : m. 2d A^delaide O. 
Osborn, dau. of Chauncey and Miranda Osborn ; ch. of 2d wife are Ada 
E. 8 b. Oct. 29, 1867, Mary 8 b. Nov. 5, 1870 d. Sept. 25, 1872 and son b. 
July 31, 1872 d. Aug. 18, 1872. 

Geokge T. 8 b. March 30, 1856, had w. Gecrgiana J. Corwin, dau. of 
Joseph S. and Emma Corwin ; they have ch. Herbert 9 b. Sept. 24, 1893, 
Everett F. 9 b. Oct. 21, 1894 and Phebe J. 9 b. Oct. 31, 1895. 

Joseph 5 b. Dec. 31, 1767, d. in 1849 si 82 yrs. He removed to Chester, 
N. Jersey ; was a physician of good repute and extensive practice. He 
had sous Woodhull 6, also a physician, and Henry 6 a farmer residing 
in the ancestral home. Henry 6 had son James 7 who d. of consump- 
tion in California, and a dau. who m. a clergyman named Blauvelt, 
(Presbyterian.) 

Coii. David Hedges, Je. 6 b. June 14, 1779, d. Jan. 1, 1856 sb 77, was a 
man of unusual intelligence, good judgment and strong common sense. 
He served the public as a silversmith all his life. His house and shop 
next south of Clinton Academy were the resort of those seeking counsel 
or social enjoyment. He had many and strong friends. He represent- 
ed Suffolk County in the Assembly in the years 1825, 1829, 1833. He 
held many town offices besides that of Supervisor. Few men have en- 
joyed more fully the respect and confidence of their fellow men and de- 
servedly so. His son John C. Hedges, M. D. although of sweet, modest 
retiring manner, was like his father in intellect, judgment and good 
sense; an omniverous reader, an untiring antiquarian, an attractive 
companion. No descendant perpetuates their light. The fragrant 
memory of their virtues and their friendship yet survive. This tribute 
to their worth the writer, their kinsman, is impelled to record. 



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Stephen 4 bap. Nov. 1. 1724, d. 1801. a^ 77, m. Dec. 21, 1727 Amy Mul- 
ford and had ch. Amy 5 bap. Sopt. 29, 1728, Stephon 5 bap. Jan. 3, 17B1, 
Timothy 5 bap. March 11, 173:!, Matthew 5 bap. June 15, 1735, Nathan- 
iel 5 bap. July 24, 1737, Esther 5 bap. April 13. 1740. John 5 bap. May 1, 
1743, Elias 5 bap. June 1, 174C, Ruth 5 bap. Doc. 11, 1748, Mary 5 bap. 
March 1749 and Elizabeth 5 bap. July 26, 1753. 

Stephen 5 m. Jan. 1, 1748 Mary Miller, and had ch. Jane 6 bap. 1759, 
David 6 bap. Sept. 5, 1762, Joseph 6 bap. Jan. 4, 1767. 

Timothy 5 had ch. Sarah 6 bap. 1761, Lucretia 6 bap. 1766, and Jere- 
miah 6. ' 

Jekemiah W. 6 b. March 19, 1763, d. June 12. 1832, had w. Mary Corey 
b. April 18, 1769, d. Sept. 1, 1839, they had s. Capt. Jeremiah W. 7 of 
Sag-Harbor, b. Oct. 30, 1803. 

Capt. Jekemiah W. 7 b. Oct. 30, 1803, d. Jan. 31, 1880, had w. Marjr 
Bishop, b. Oct. 22, 1810, d. Mav 4, 1890 : they had ch. Samuel P. 8 b. Feb. 
10, 1833, d. May 12, 1837, Jeremiah E,. 8 b. Feb. 5, 1835, d. March 23, 1837, 
Jeremiah L. 8 b. Feb. 2, 1839, d. Sept. 6, 1862, Mary R. 8 b. Feb. 9, 1S42, 
Hannah B. 8 b. March 24, 1844, Edward R. 8 b. May 9, 1847. has w. Mary 
J. Wright Feb. 26, 1884, has no ch. The deceased ch. of Capt. Jere- 
miah W. 7 all d. s. p. 

Matthew 5 had ch. Juliana 6 bap. Oct. 18, 1761, Hannah 6 bap. March 
2, 1766, Paul 6 of Ohio, Matthew 6 who rem., Esther 6, Stephen 6 of N. 
Y. city, Timothy 6 bap. Dec. 10, 1780, Sophia 6 bap. 1782, Samuel Booth 6 
bap. March 24, 1786 of Washington Co. N. Y., Clarinda 6 bap. Nov. 15, 
1789, John W. 6 bap. Dec. 4. 1791, Nathaniel 6 bap. May 27, 1795. 

Timothy 6 bap. Dec. 10. 1780, had w. and ch. Mary McRea Con- 
ger 7 w. of Abraham Conger, and Catharine 7. Mary left ch. Cath- 
arine d. s. p. 

Lemuel 4 bap. 1714, m. Jan. 8, 1740 Amy Dimon, of Southold, had ch. 
Amy 5 bap. 1742, Mary 5 bap. 1746, Lydia 5 bap. 1748, Abigail 5 bap. 1750, 
Sarah 5 bap. 1752. 

Isaac 2, younger son of William 1, the first settler, died in 1676. 
March 7 of that year Letters of Administration of his estate were grant- 
ed and his young children are mentioned but not named. He m. Joan- 
na d. oi Joshua Barnes, and of his children we only know his son 

Isaac 3 b. about 1664 and died Nov. 22, 1726, had ch. Samuel 4 b abt. 
1685, d. March 9, 1755 ee 70, Abraham 4 b. 1692, d. Jan. 12. 1722-3. Isaac 4 
b. abt. 1695, Jacob 4 b. 1698, d. Jan. 16, 1723. Jeremiah 4 bap. April 12, 
1702, d. Jan. 4, 1722-3, Johanna 4 bap. April 23, 1704, Mary 4 bap. June 9, 
1706, *Gideon 4 bap. Oct. 28, 1711. Henry 4 bap. April 19, 1713, David 4 
bap. Oct. 16, 1715, John 4 bap. March 2, 1718. 

*Gideon 4 resided in Egypt on the place where the late William L. 
Barnes, of Illinois, removed from, and both Gideon 4 and Henry 4 with 
their families removed, the latter to Middletown, Conn. h. l". h. 

Samuel 4 d. March 9, 1755 eo 70, m. May 8, 1702, Lois Parsons, who d. 
Dec. 25, 1718 and had ch. Jonathan 5 b. 1706, Samuel 5 b. abt. 1707, and 
Benjamin 5 of Montauk, b, 1714, and perhaps daughters. 

Jonathan 5 d. Jan. 16, 1763, m. Hannah Conkling Oct. 9, 1729. and 
had ch. Jonathan 6 bap. Sept. 20, 1730, Lois 6 bap. Aug. 26, 1733, Mehet- 
abel 6 bap. Nov. 27, 1737, Barnaby 6, Abigail 6 bap. Feb. 7, 50-1, Reub- 
en 6 b. 1750. 

Reuben 6 had ch. Dr. George 7 bap. June 179«\ Robert L. 7 (the old 
school master) bap. Nov. 1792. Mehetabel 7 bap. June 10, 1798, Hannah 7. 
and Mary 7. 
Samuel 5 d. Aug, 27, 1735, a) about 28 years, m. Experience Talmage 



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July Gth, 1732 and had ch. Experience 6 bap. July, 1734 and Samuel 6 
bap. Feb, 15, 1735-6. 

Benjamin 5 d. March '21, 1812, as 98, m. Alethea, d. of Daniel Miller. 
June 16, 1741, ar.d had eh. Phillip 6 bap. May 2, 1742. Benjamin 6 bap. 
March 18, 1744, Nathan 6 bap. Feb. 2, 1746, Elihu 6 bap. Sept. 4, 1749, 
and Christopher 6 bap. probably Jan. 25, 1753. 

Phillip 6 d. March 3, 1834, sb 92, and had sou Benjamin 7 of Amagan- 
sett, b. June 10, 1789, d. April 12, 1880. 

Benjamin 7 had w. Jeanette Barn-s b. March 25, 1790, d. Dec. 30, 1859. 
They had ch. Mary 8 b. Oct. 26, 1817, d. Oct. 26, 1840 d. s. p., William 8 
b. Dec. 22, 1819, d. Oct. 28, 1840. William 8 had w. Frances M. d. Feb. 
13, 1854 (B 30. They had dau. Mary A. b. Feb. 27, 1840, w. of Charles W. 
Kaekett, and they have ch. 

Thomas 6 had dau. Keziah 7. bap. 1767, 

Nathan 6 had ch. Phebe 7 bap. Dec. 17. 1775, Nathan 7 bap. 1777 and 
d. young. Temperance 7 bap. Jan. 23, 1780, Nathan 7 bap. May 26, 1783, 
and Hannah 7 fjap. June 11, 1790. 

Elihu 6 d. Aug. 23, 1823, had ch. Mary 7 bap. Jan. 1777, Elihu 7 bap. 
Aug. 22, 1784, Esther Talmadge 7 bap. Nov. 14, 1788, and Sahara 7 bap. 
Aug. 1791. 

Christopher 6 had ch. Lyon G. 7 bap. April 18, 1779, Hannah 7 bap. 
June 8, 1783, Sylvauus 7 bap. May 28, 1786, Elizabeth 7 bap. Sept. 1788, 
and Sylvanus 7 bap. Aug. 1797. 

Isaac 4 b. abt. 1695, m. Feb. 6, 1722-3. Phebe Parsons, and had ch. 
Abraham 5 bap. Dec. 8. 1723, Isaac 5 bap. Sept. 22, 1728, Mary 5 bap. 28 
March 1731, Joanna 5 bap. May 26, 1734, and Jacob 5 bap. Sept. 24, 1738. 

Abraham 5 m. Oct. 25, 1747, Esther Miller and had ch. Elizabeth 6 
bap. Aug. 20, 1748 and Esther 6 bap. July 26, 1753. 

Deacon Jacob 5 bap. Sept. 24, 1738, d. May 18, 1822, le 84, had ch. 
Abraham 6 bap. May 19, 1777, Isaac 6 bap. Nov. 2] , 1778 and Jacob 6 
bap. Feb. 22, 1784, d. Sept. 8, 1869, ee 85 years. 

Jacob 6 had ch. Albert L. 7 b. 1820, Clarissa E. 7 b. 1827 and Abra- 
ham 7. 

Albert L. 7 b. 1820, d. June 8. 1893, se 73 yrs. had w. Mary and ch. 
Abraham E. 8 b. May 26, 1852 and Mary E. 8 b. Jan. 26, 1859, w. DeWitt 
C. Talmage. 

Abraham E. 8 b. May 26, 1852. has w. Mary E. Eldridge and ch. How- 
ard D. 9 b. Nov. 8, 1877, Bessie M. 9 b. Nov. 16, 1879, Clarissa E. b. Dec. 
11, 1883. 

Between North West Creek and Thiee Mile Harbor there was a con- 
venient anchoring ground for whaling ships outward bound, called 
"Hedges' Banks." The farm was owned by Ebenezer Hedges, who had 
a son Ebenezer born Aug. 17, 1751, and who I think was descended from 
Isaac 2, son of William 1, but whose line I have not definitely traced. 
This Ebenezer b. Aug. 17, 1751, d. April 25, 1832, had w. Puah TiJling- 
hast, b. Oct. 7, 1767, d. March 31, 1838, and thev had ch. Thomas Till- 
inghast b. May 3, 1795, d. Feb. 19, 1797, Hannah^b. Oct. 14. 1796, d. Feb. 
21, 1797, Hannah b. Maich 13, 1797, d. July 8, 1863. Thos. Tillinghast b. 
Oct. 19, 1799, d. Nov. 16, 18{r6. Lucretia b. Sept. 9, 1802, d. July 8. 1804, 
Sarah Faisons b. June 29, lh04, d. Nov. 5, 1838, Lvdia Simons b. March 
2e, ieC6. d. Oct. 8, ie06, Ebenezer Conklin b. Aug. 7, 1807, d. Dec. 20, 
1839, Ljdia Simons b. March 8. 1810, d. March 31, 1832. 

Thomas T. b. Oct. 9, 1799, had 1st wile Esther Parsons b. March 17, 
1809. d. Oct. 7, 1849, and they bad ch. Samuel P. b. April 11, 1830, d. July 
4, 1851, Joanna A. b. June 26, 1835, m. Wm. L. Policy and d. Aug. 25, 



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1869, and John T. b. July 25, 1832, all by 1st wife; had 2d w. Nancy 
Foster and no issue by that marriage. 

John T. b. July 12, 1832. now of Bridge-Hampton, had w. Johanna T. 
Horton b. May 20, 1840, and ch. Esther Puah Johanna b. April 13, 1868, 
John Ebonozer Samuel b. July 5, 1809. Bculah Elma b. Sept. 14, 1871, d. 
Nov. 8, 1871, Frances M. b. Aug. 21, 1874, d. Nov. 18, 1874, Harry Daniel 
b. Nov. 8. 1875, d. Sept. 10, 1876, and Harry Andrew Thomas b. Apr. 1879 

SAGG HEDGES. 

Daniel 3 of Sagg b. 1677, d. 1734, m. Sept. 20. 1702, Abigail Baker, d. 
of Nathl. Baker, had ch. Daniel 4 b. 1708, Jonathan 4 b. 1724. Mary 4. 

Daniel 4 d. April 12, 1766, aj 58, had ch. Daniel 5 b. May 11, 1734, Da- 
vid 5 b. June 15, 1744, Abigail W. 5 w. of Pierson, Elizjibeth 5 w. of 

Pierson, Sarah 5, Abraham 5 and Stephen 5. 

Daniel 5 m. 1st Oct. 27, 1756 Sarah Baker b. Aug. 6, 1735 and m. 2d 
Susanna Pierson (who was mother of his last two eh.) had ch. Sarah 6 

b. Aug. 17, 1757, w. of Premer, Nathan 6 b. June 5, 1759, Daniel 6 

b. Nov. 24, 1760, Abigail 6 b. Nov. 13, 1762 w. of Stevens, Pheb'e 6 

b. March 28 1765, w. of Theophilus Cook, Caleb 6 b. Sept. 16, 1770, 
Abraham 6 b. July 7, 1768, Hannah 6 b. Aug. 12, 1772 w. of John Pierson, 
Nathaniel 6 b. Sept. 12, 1774, of Hartford, Ct., Susanna 6 b. March 22, 
1778, Martha 6 and Abraham O. 6, twins b. April 24, 1780. 

Daniel 6 of Brooklyn had s. James S. 7 of Sag-Harbor, James S. 7 of 

5. Harbor had s. James 8 of S. Hdrbor, James S. 8 of S. Harbor b. 1827 
had w. Hannah b. 1833 and ch. Maurice 9 b. 1856. John H. 9 b. 1858, and 
Edward M. 9 b. 1865, all d. s. p. 

Abeahaji 6 had s. Nathan 7 of Newark, N. J. 

Deacon David 5 b. June 15, 1744, d. Nov. 8, 1817, had 1st w. Charity 
Howell. 2d Phebe widow of Thos. Sandford, Esq., 3d Esther Mulford ; 
w. Charity died Oct. 25. 1791, w. Phebe d. Jan. 22, 1796. w. Esther d. 
Sept. 10, 1825; had ch. Zephaniah 6 b. Dec. 6, 1768, David 6 b. Dec. 24, 
1769, Jesse 6 b. Sept. 16, 1771, Wilkes 6 b. July 21, 1775, Sarah 6 b. May 

6, 1777, Eunice 6 w. of John White b. Aug. 1, 1767, Mary 6 w. of — Arnett 
b. Oct. 1, 1779, Abigail 6 w. of Hiram Sandford b. Oct. 19, 1782, Charity 6 
w. of Jeremiah Huntting b. July 15, 1785, Betsey 6 w. of Nathaniel Top- 
ping. M. D. ; Betsey 6 was dau. of 3d w. Esther; all other ch. of w. 
Charity. 

Zephaniah 6 b. Dec. 6, 1768, d. Sept. 16, 1847, had w. Phebe P. dau. of 
Capt. Jeremiah Osborne, and ch. Thos. S. 7 b. Feb. 23, 1810, Edwin 7 b. 
Dec. 29, 1811, Maria 7 b. Aug. 13, 1815, Henry P. 7 b. Oct 13, 1817, Jere- 
miah O. 7 b. Aug. 28, 1819, Phebe 7 b. Aug. 23, 1822; ch. Maria and Phe- 
be died young. 

Thomas S. 7 ra. May 1, 1833, Temperance Eogers and nad ch. Henry 
E. 8 who had d. Ella 9 w. of Horace Tliacker. 

Edwin 7 m. Nancy K. Topping and had ch. Hervey T. 8 now living, 
and Maria P. deed. 

Henky p. 7 m. Gloriana Osboi-n, dau. of Samuel Osborn and had ch. 
Samuel O. 8 b. March 5 1845, Edwin 8 b. Feb. 12, 1847, William 8 b. June 
21, 1851; Edwin 8 d. May 8. 1881 d. s-. p. ; Gloriana \v. of Henrj' P. 7 d. 
Feb. 1, 1891; Henry P. had 2d w. Mary G, Hildrcth, m. Feb. 23, 1892; 
Samuel 0. had w. Anna E. dau. of Nymphas Wright ; Edwin had w. Em- 
ily dau. of Kichard Cook; William had w. Harriet dau. of Kev. James 
Hamlin, who is dec'd ; Henry P. 7, Edwin 8 and William 8 were gradu- 
ates of Yale. 

Jeremiah 7 had w. Eliza, now dec'd, and ch. Harriet B. 8 b. 1844. 
Susan M. 8 b. 1846, John B. 8 b. 1850 and Marcus Osborn 8 b. 1854. 



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David 6 b. Dec. 24, 1769, had w. Jemima Topping and ch. Col. Har- 
vey 7 b. 1798, David 7 b. 1804 and Mary 7 w. of Rev. Amzi Fi-ancis, and 
they had dau. Henrietta 8 w. Jas. Talcott. Col. Harvey 7 m. 1st Mary 
Hand ; they had ch. Mary w. of Sherwood Adams b. 1843, m. 2d Liaura 
Topping and they had son Henry T. late of Plum Creek, Nebraska. 

David 7 had \v. Clarissa dau. of Dea. Silas White and they had ch. 
Cassander W. 8 b. 1834, now of Norwich, Ct., David Anson 8 M. D. of N. 
York, b. 1836 and Isabella 8 w. of Roger A. Francis. Cassander W. 8 
had w. Flora; they had ch. Isabella 9 and Edward C. 9. David Anson, 
M. D. 8 had w. Frances Higgius ; they had ch. Mabel 9 and LeRoy 9. 

Jesse 6 had w. dau. of Recoo-pence Sherrill and ch. Albert G. 7 b. 
1800, Charles 7 and dau. m. Hallock. 

Albert G. 7 had w. Almira Halsey and ch. Frances 8 b. 1827, Harriet 8 
b. 1829, Mary 8 b. 1831, Juliette 8 b . 1833, Helen 8 b. 1839, Susan 8 b. 
1842, m. Brinley D. Sleight, and George 8. 

Chakles 7 had s. Charles S. 8 of Sag-Hatbor, who had w. Anna V. and 
they had ch. Jennie d. y. and Ada B. b. July 1, 1867. 

Wilkes 6 had. w. Mary dau. of Huntting Miller and they had ch. 
Eliza 7 b. 1801, William 7 b. Sept. 29, 1803, Huntting M. 7 b. 1809, 
Wilkes 7 b. 1811, Mary 7 and James 7 ; Mary 7 and James 7 died young ; 
Eliza 7 never married ; Huntting M. 7 m. Abigail Youngs and both d. s. 
p. ; Wilkes 7 had w. Julia Osborn b. 1809 and ch. John Wilkes 8 b. 1844, 
Anna E. 8 b. 1846 and Esther M. 8 b. 1848. 

Capt. WiLiiiABi 7 of East-Hampton b. 1803 had 1st w. Phebe Osborn 
and ch. James M. 8 b. Aug. 26, 1830, Mary M. 8 (w. of Geo. Carll) b. Sep. 
13, 1832; Capt. William 7 had 2d w. Mary G. Osborn and they had ch. 
William 8 b. March 20, 1839 and Huntting M. 8 who d. young. 

James M. 8 had w. Catherine Mulford and they had ch. Phebe E. 9 b. 
May 21, 1860. now w. of Jeremiah H. Mulford. 

William 8 b. 1839 had w. Mary E. Baker and they had ch. Mary 
Buell 9 b. Jan. 29, 1866, William Huntting 9 b. June 5, 1868, Samuel 
Carll 9 b. Feb. 7, 1870, James Miller 9 b. Sept. 17, 1872 d. April 4, 1873, 
Ettie Cartwright 9 b. Jan. 28, 1879. 

WiLLiABi Huntting 9 b. June 5, 1868, m. Julia P. Sherrill ; they have 
ch. William Sherrill 10 b. Jan. 26, 1890, Kenneth 10 b. Jan. 17, 1892, Dor- 
othy b. July 19, 1894. 

Stephen 5 son of Daniel 4 of Sagghad ch. Stephen 6 b. 1765 and Ja- 
red 6 b. March 28, 1770. Stephen 6 had ch. Levi 7 and Elizabeth 7 who 
d. s. p. and w. of James Edwards. 

Jared 6 had w. Ruth Norris b. Oct. 7, 1782, and ch. Charity 7 w. of Al- 
bert Hand b. May 28, 1818, Robert H. 7 b. Jan. 18, 1809, John N. 7 b. 
Oct. 13, 1811, Jared D. 7 b. March 4, 1814, and Chas. O. 7 b. May 18, 1823. 

ROBEKT 7 had w. Phebe Parker and ch. Robert L. 8 b. 1842, Samuel 
P. 8 b. 1846 (of Greenport, L. I.) Stephen 8 b. 1848, James M. 8 b. Jan. 
28, 1836, had w. Emily Edwards and they have dau. Nellie Maude b. 
Aug. 25, 1875 ; Robert L. b. 1842 had w. Mary F. Fordham and they have 
son William F. 9 b. March 14, 1879. 

John N. 7 had 1st w. Betsey Osborn and they had son Elisha 0. b. 
1842 and Alary L. b. 1843. John N. had 2d wife Caroline Ludlow and 
ch. John N. 8 b. June 14, 1847, Adaline A. 8 b. 1850, Elizabeth O 8. b. 
1852 and Abbie H. 8 b. 1858. Elizabeth 8 m. Gurden Ludlow and Abbie 
M. 8 m. Edward H. Dickinson. 

Jaked 7 b. March 4, 1813, had w. Caroline Hopping b. Jan. 25, 1821 
and ch. Francos E. 8 b. June 25, 1843, Ebenczer D 8 b. Seiit. 11, 1845, 
Nathan 0. 8 b. Sept. 4, 1848, Elias M. 8 b. Auril 21, 1851, Ruth E. 8 b. 
Jan. 30, 1854, Wilbur 8 b, March 30, 1856, Carll 8 b. June 17, 1857, and 



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Edward E. 8 b. Sept. 27, 1861, Frances 8 m. George B. Barnes, Ruth 8 
m. Oliver S. Osborn. 

Charles O. 7 b. May 18, 1823, d. April 13, 1881, had w. Charity H. 
Fithian, b. March 25, 1836, m. Nov. 9, 1857; they had eh. Charles O. 8 b. 
Aug. 28, 1858. Harriet N. 8 b. Jan. 29. 1860, Edwin G. 8 b. Aug. 3, 1862 d. 
May 2, 188i, Herbert L. 8 b. Jan. 1, 1865, Frank J. 8 b. Nov 21, 18G7, Mat- 
tie 8, Elizabeth 8 b. Nov. 18, 1872, William Henry 8 b. Feb. 5. 1876. 
Frank J. 8 had w. S. Bernice Hopping and they have ch. Arthur F. b. 
April 26, 1894. Harriet N. 8 m. Woodburn, Dec. 24, 1884. 

Charles O. 8 b. Aug. 28, 1858, m. Martha J. EUiston March 25, 1885 : 
they have ch. Charles EUiston 9 b. Dec. 4, 18»8, Edward Gilbert 9 b. Nov. 
14, 1890. 

John N. 8 b. June 14, 1847, m. Fannie M. Rogers Dec. 24, 1872; she 
was b. July 31, 1854; they had ch. Carrie A. 9 b. Nov. 21, 1873 (who ra. 
Frank A. Hopping Oct. 20, 1891) and Willie J. b. Nov. 30, 1878. 

Ebenezer D. 8 b. 1845 m. Anna F. Matthews b. 1846 ; they have ch. 
George L. 9 b. March 23, 1868, Benjamin O. 9 b. Jan. 10, 1876. 

Elias M. 8 b. 1851 m. Mary J. Morrison b. 1853; they have ch. Wil- 
liam H. 9 D. Nov. 3, 1877, Harry M. 9 b. June 10, 1889, Raymond M. 9 b. 
Sept. 10, 1891 d. June 2, 1892. 

Cakl Hopping Hedges 8 b. June 17, 1857 had w. Abbie H. Glover b. 
May 3, 1861 ; they have ch. Maud C. 9 b. Sept. 11, 1880, Carl W. 9 b. Oct. 
31, 1882, Lizzie F. 9 b. Sept. 9, 1884, Everett S. 9 b. Oct. 3, 1886, Hettio 
P. 9 b. March 5, 1889, Wilson Glover 9 b. Jan. 7, 1893. 

Edward Ellsworth 8 b. Sept. 27, 1861 had w. Jennie A. b. March 25, 
1864; they have ch. Sadie Edwards 9 b. Sept. 3, 1887, Percy £. 9 b. Maj 
10, 1892. 

Wilbur A. 8 b. March 30, 1856 had w. Mary E. Winters b. Oct. 28, 
1857, and ch. Jessie May 9 b. Nov. 12, 1882, Ethel Lee 9 b. Dec. 13, 1884, 
d. Nov. 9, 1891, and Henry Alphonso 9 b. Dec. 19. 1887. 

Nathan Osborn 8 b. Sept. 4, 1848 had w. Theresa Miller Burke b. 
July 26, 1860, and ch. Mary Hines 9 b. Jan. 22, 1882, Norman Church 9 
b. March 27, 1883, William Dayton 9 b. July 22, 1884, Walter Norris9 b. 
Feb. 11, 1890. 

DEACON DAVID HEDGES. 
Deacon David Hedges was born June 15th, 1744, and died November 
8th, 1817. He was a remarkable man. Pelletreau, in Munsell's History 
of Suffolk County, records the fact, that he was, for twenty yeai-s, Su- 
pervisor of the town of Southampton, "a longer time than any other 
man," and he says of him he was "a man of upright life and free from 
guile." The New-York Civil List reports him a member of the Provin- 
cial Congress in 1776, and a member of Assembly in 1786, 1787, 1788, 
1789, 1804, 1806, 1807; also a member of the convention which met at 
Poughkeepsie and ratified the Constitution of the United States, July 
26tn, 1788, and voting therefor. In 1807 he was active in procuring the 
passage of an act incorporating the Proprietors of Montauk. This act 
authorized every proprietor to cast one vote, and if he owned more 
than one-eighth of a share to cast one vote lor each additional eighth, 
and prohibited any proprietor from casting over eight votes. His 
agency, in the passage of this law, was criticized, on the ground that 
the vote of eveiy proprietor should be equal. Upon this ground which 
may lead to the absurdity of a minority rule, the law was vehemently' 
opposed. The incorporation proceedings were attended witii disorder 
and tumult, which prevented organization and the mi^eting was broken 
up without efl'ecting its purpose. In our day, in all corporations, com. 



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mon justice enacts that all share holders vote according to the number 
of shares owned. In that day Deacon Hedges claimed but a limited 
observance of that rule, now universally accepted. His sin was the sin 
of thinking in advance of his age. He was a large fai'mer and compell- 
ed by the British to furnii^h hay for the garrison in Sag-Harbor, in the 
Revolutionary war. My father told me he carted some of the hay. fol- 
lowing the ox cart of the Deacon, his father. Subsequently, by Meigs' 
expedition, the hay was burned. Its destruction so enraged the British 
that they refused to pay for the hay, as they had promised, and never 
did pay for it. Out of this transaction, and with this only as a founda- 
tion, a silly story was told that Deacon Hedges fed the British. 

He was a man of positive convictions and intensely religious. In the 
war of the Revolution the Bridge-Hampton church had no minifeter. 
Deacon Hedges ther, and through all his after life, in the minister's 
absence, conducted public worship, and often read a sermon. In reso- 
luLion, in fidelity to his convictions of duty, in sound sense, in good 
judgment, in executive force, in business capacity, he was conspicuous. 
Ihe wife of the Eev. Dr. Woolworth wrote of his death : "Help, Lord, 
for the godly man ceaseth." It is doubtful whether Bridge-Hampton 
ever held in its bounds, on his own statement, a greater scoundrel 
than Stephen Burroughs. The antagonism of the two men was inevi- 
table and to thoughtful minds the sneering censures in "Burrough's 
Life" are a certificate to the credit of Deacon Hedges. His commend- 
ation would have been the stamp of dishonor. 

He was physically powerful, and with executive force capable of 
great endurance. It is reported that he took a drove a cattle to New- 
York, and sold them for a thousand pounds. In those days robberies 
were freciuent and the danger therefrom alarming. To avoid it Deacon 
Hedges took this large sum in his saddle bags, started on horseback 
before daybreak from Brooklyn ferry, and stopping for refreshments 
only once on the road, tirrived at his home in Sagg safely, by 9 o'clock 
in the evening, a distance of one hundred miles. Tradition tells that 
the Deacon was none the worse for it, but the young horse he rode was 
a long time disabled. There is a trtidition that at one time the State 
government offered a bounty or premium to the man who should raise 
the most flax. In the hope o*:' procuring the premium he sowed forty 
acres in one field. He led the company in pulling it, and when they 
got around it, LeviSandford, one of them nearest to him said, "Deacon 
we have been 'round the world." 

Col. Jonathan 4 b. 1724, d. June 3, 1804, aj 80, m. Phebe Sept. 11, 174G 
and had ch. Phebe 5 b. July 27, 1747, Jonathan 5 (of Newark Galley, Ti- 
oga Co. N. Y.) b. May 2, 1749, d. April 10, 1835, Eiias 5 b. Feb. 15, 1751. 
Job 5 b. March 1753, Mary 5 (w. of Henry Moore) b. Feb. 4, 1755, Cyn- 
thia 5 w. of Elisha Miller b. Oct. 10, 1757, Abigail 5 b. Julj 2G, 1759, 
Stephen 5 b. April 10, 17G4 and Ruth 5 w. of Wm. Piersou, b. Dec. 31, 17G6 

Job 5 (of Sag-Hajbor) b. March 4, 1753, had ch. Lyman 6, Deacon 
Job 6, Howell G and Phebe G vv. of Babcock. , 

Lyman 6 had son Lyman 7 and Stephen 7 of Michigan. 

The descendants ot Daniel 3 have resided, except as otherwise stated, 
chiefiy in the town of Southampton. The descendants of John 3 and 
William, 3 except as otherwise stated, have resided chiefly in East- 
Hampton. 

HowEiiL Hedges G, son of Job 5 of Sag-Harbor, b. July 15, 1799, d. 
May 9, 1893, te over 93, had w. Eliza W. Hallock, m. July 18, 1819, and 



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ch. Sarah A. 7 b. May 28, 1820 d. Feb. 1888, lu. TraQcis Sayrc, June 10, 
183y • Cornelia W. 7 b. March 8. 1822, d. Juno 7, 1890, ni. Hannibal French 
Oct. G, 18-1«; Edward S. 7 b. Oct. 11, 1823; Fanny M. 7 b. July 20, 1825; 
David H. 7 b. Dec. 4, 1826, last Heard from June 1848: John T. 7 b. Feb. 
19 1828; Augustus N. 7 b. Juno 25, 1831; Job H. 7 b. June 13, 1833; 
Adaline E. 7 b. Sept. 15, 1835, d. April 9, 18(i4, m. Luther Hildreth Nov. 
14, 1854, who d. Aug. 13. 1858, and in. 2d Benj. Conkling June 12, 1801; 
Arabella T. 7 b. April 10, 1838 ; Henry M. 7 b. July 8. 1810, lost at sea in 
1888 ; Benjamin B. 7 b. July 15, 1842. d. in infancy ; William W. 7 b. Feb. 
20, 1844, d'. Jan. 23, 1870 ; George T. 7 b. July 5, 1846. Cornelia W. 7 m. 
Hannibal French and they had ch. Florence E. 8 b. Sept. 19, 1847; Ar- 
thur S. 8 b. June 30, 1849 ; Blanche H. 8 b. Jan. 8, 1851 ; Hannibal, Jr. 8 b. 
July 5, 1^52; Frank C. 8 b. July 3, 1854; Genevieve 8 b. Nov. 28, 1856; 
Henry 8 b. Oct. 15. 1858; Willie 8 b. Oct. 7, 1859, died an infant; Corne- 
lia H. 8 b. Sept 25, 1860. ., ^ ^^^, 

Job Hedges 6 (Deacon) sou of Job 5, b. April 3, 1790, d. April i, 1841, 
had w. Mary B. Fordham b. Feb.. 3, 1793, d. March 1, 1873; they had ch. 
Charles W. 7 b. July 24, 1815, d. Dec. 14, 1895 ; William T. 7 b. Feb. 20, 
1817, d. Feb. 20, 1819 ; Mary A. 7 b. Oct. 20, 1818, now living ; Sarah L. 7 
b. Aug. 15, 1820, now living; Henry J. 7 b. Dec. 15, 1824, d. July 22. 1827; 
Emily L. 7 b. July 7, 1826, d. June 25, 1827 ; Edward P. 7 b. April 23, 1828, 
now living; Harriet L. 7 b. April 20, 1830, now living; Thomas C. 7 b. 
March 19, 1832, d. Nov. 7, 1857 at sea. 

Chables W. 7 had w. Sarah dau. of Howes Croweil and they had dau- 
Ellen 8 now living in Sinclairville, N. Y. 

Maky a. 7 m. James E. Brown and they had six ch. now all d. except 
Wm. H. now living in San Francisco, Cal. 

Sakah L. 7 in. 1st George fi(.well who d. at sea Sept. 18, 1850, they 
had sou Henry killed on gunboat Picket Sept. 6, 1862; m. 2d Gideon 
Nicholl, now dead. 

Edwakd p. 7 m. Julia J. Graham Nov. 14, 1853 and they have ch. Je- 
rome G. 8, Carrie E, 8, Mary B. 8 and George H. 8, of whom Jerome 
G. 8 has ch. Julia 9 now living in Middletown, Conn. ; Carrie E. 8 has 
ch. Cyrus Foss 9 aud Wilbur Fisk 9, now in Spokane, Wash. ; Mary B. 8 
is now in New Haven. Conn. ; George H. 8 has ch. Carrie D. 9 and Eay- 
mond 9. in Middletown, Conn. 

HAKitiET L. 7 m. Edward B. Eeynolds and they had ch. George 8, 
Edward H. 8 and Mary B. 8; George 8 d. Jan. 17, 1882; Edward H. 8 is 
in Seattle. Wash. ; Mary B. 8 is w. of Dr. H. R. Holmes, Adams, Mass. 

Coij. Jonathan Hedges 4 b. 1725, d. 1804, was in many respects a 
remarkabJe man. His stern will, positive character and independent 
thought, resident in a masrsive frame, made his presence imposing and 
titled him for leadership. At the time of the battle of Long Island he 
was over lifty years of age, residing on the west side of Sagg street, 
next south of the lob Picrsroii place. He was Lieutenant-Colonel of a 
regiment composed of the militia, resident in East-Hampton, Bridge- 
Hampton ami Sag-Hal bor, whereof David Mulford was Colonel. '-Col. 
Abm. Gaidinei administered the oath of allegiance to the people of 
East ai.d Southampton. He surrounded the house of Col. Hedges at 
Sagg and of Col. Mulford at East-Hamplon, and forced them to take the 
oath." See Onderdonk's llevolutiouary incidents of Suffolk and King's 
Counties, p. 46. This record of itself attests his unw^avering patriot- 
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Hedges Family op Patchogue, compiled by Chables M. Hedges in 
1883, with additions by william b. hedges. 

EzEKiEL Hedges 4 b. 1719, sod of William 3, removerl to East Patch- 
ogue in 1755 aucl there purchased of BarDabas Eider 1,300 acres of land 
for £1,000, d. Nov. 17, 1789, sb 70 years, had w. Elizabeth who d. June 
27, 1795. 83 68 years. They had ch. Joseph 5 b. 1752, d. 1765, ss 13 years, 
Ezekiel 5 b, 1749, Elias 5 b. Aug. 23, J760, Jerusha 5, Joseph 5 b. June 
25, 1766. 

Jeeusha 5 m. Sweezey ; they had ch. Abel. Steven, Jeremiah and 

Mulford, and grand dau. Mrs. Davis Baker (at Patchogue in 1883). 

Ezekiel 5 b. 1749, d. in 1782, a3 33 years, had w. Sweezey of Mid- 
dle Island, and ch. Elizabeth 6 who m. Richard Helm of Miller's Place, 
L. 1. and Jerusha 6 who m. John Van Brunt of Setauket, L. I. 

Elias 5 b. Aug. 23, 1760, m. April 21, 1784 to Hannah Green, d. April 
17, 1814, 03 54, she d. Oct. 9, 1832, a? 76; they had ch. Mary 6, Ezekiel 6 
b. Sept. 12, 1787, d. Jan 26, 1866 in Patchogue, sd 79 yrs., Elizabeth 6 b. 
Oct. 7, 1790, d. s. p. Dec. 1842, Isaac 6 b. April 12, 1796, lost at sea, Elias 
M. 6 b. May 20, 1798, d. an infant. 

Maky 6 dau. of Elias 5 m. Phillip Homan and they had ch. Isaac of N. 
Y. city, Mordecai, deed., Sylvester and Mrs. George Edwards, of West 
Yaphank, L. I. 

Deacon Joseph 5, son of Ezekiel 4, b. June 25, 1766, m. April 16, 1788 
Temperance Osborn, of East-Hampton, L. I. ; they had ch. Maria 6, 
Hannah 0. 6. Joseph O. 6, Jerusha 6, Charles 6, David 6 and Mulford 6. 
Maria 6 b. Nov. 24, 1783, d. Oct. 30, 1802, 03 14 yrs. ; Hannah 6 b. Nov. 

24, 1794, m. Samuel N. Hutton, of Middle Island and they d. in 1873 
there, leaving ch. Hannah M., Jerusha and Joseph N. 

Joseph O. 6 s. of Deacon Joseph 5 b. Dec. 27, 1796, had w. 1st Nancy 
Bell and they had two ch. Charles 7 and Ann Maria 7; 1st w. died July 

25, 1828 ; had 2d w. Mrs. Mary Eoe Lovett and they had dau Emaline 7 ; 
Joseph O. 6 b. Dec. 27, 1796, d. March 14, 1876, ss 79; his w. Maryd. Oct. 
30, 1878. 

Chakles 7. son of Joseph O. 6. b. Jan. 4, 1819, m. 1st Sarah Beam, of 
N. Y. city, and m. 2d Mary Lasher, of N. Y. city. 

Anna Makia 7, dau. of Joseph O. 6 b. Nov. 28, 1820, m. Feb. 4, 1841, 
Capt. Isaac Homan, of Bellport, L. I., and they have ch. Herman B., 
Ann A. and Mary E. 

Emkline 7 dau. of Joseph O. 6 b. Oct. 3, 1830, m. Nov. 18, 1854 William 
Overton, of Bellport, L. I. and they have ch. Joseph W., Charles E., 
Herbert, deed., Emma, deed., and Imogene: William Overton d. Jan. 
19, 1865. 

Chakles 6 son of Joseph 5 b. Jan. 3, 1800, d. Nov. 15, 1817, a3 17. 

Jekusha 6 dau. of Joseph 5 b. Sept. 6, 1802, m. Jan. 10, 1826 to Joseph 
Osborn of Brooklyn, N. Y. and they had ch. Joseph, Mai'ia, Elizabeth, 
Benjamin and Isabella G., all deceased except the last named, now liv- 
ing in Patchogue. 

Col. David 6 son of Joseph 5 b. Sept. 20. 1805, m. May 25, 1836 Han- 
nah Beale. He d. March 17, 3880 and she d. June 24, 1894, and d. s. p. 

MxjLEOKD 6, son of Joseph 5, b. March 10, 1808, d. March 25, 1893, m. 
1st Mary Beale and they had ch. Helen B. 7 b. Dec. 25, 1830, Maria 7 b. 
Dec. 12, 1832, Phebe F. 7 b. March 10, 1837, Charles M. 7 b. Dec. 20, 1839, 
William B. 7 b. Dec. 8, 1842. Mulford 6 had 2d w. Sophia Tooker who 
d. April 21, 1864, jb 52 years. 

Helen B. 7 dau. of Mulford 6 m. Wm. A. Corwin, of Brooklyn, N. Y- 
and they had ch. William M. deed, and Mary H. 



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Makia 7 dau. of Mulford 6 in. Albert W. Burnett, of Monroe, Morris 
Co N Y. and they have sons David H. and Willie A. 

Phebe F. 7 dau of Mvdford 6 m. Isaac C. Hulsc, of Wading Eiver, L. 
T and they have son.^ Charles W. deed, and Eugene C. and Leroy M. 

'chaeles M. 7 son of Mulford 6 had w. Emma L bweezey and ch. 
Charles H. 8, Marcus K. 8 deed., Marion S. 8, Helen L. 8 andEmma U.S. 

William B. 7 son of Mulford G m. 1st Amelia Mapes and they had 
ch Louis T. 8, William F. 8, Albert C. 8 ; Amelia w. of Wm. B. 7 d. Feb. 
28, 1884 ; William B. 7 had 2d w. Lillian M. Eice and they have dau. 
Clara Belle 8 b. Aug. 9, 1892. . „ , . ■^ nA taan 

Maeion S. 8 dau. of Charles M. 7 m. Herbert J. Bartow April 24, 1890, 
and they have dau. b. July 16, 1892. 

THE HICKS FAMILY. 
CONTBIBUTED BY TEXJNIS D. HUNTTING, ESQ. 

Among the families which at one time had many representatives in 
East-Hampton, but now none bearing its name, is the Hicks tamiiy, 
Pollv who d. in 1881, being the last survivor of that name. Dean in 
his history of Scituate, Mass., says, "Thomas Hicks wa^ probably 
brother of Robert, who came from England on the Ann in 1623. i have 
not been able to prove the relationship. We ^la^ejio record of who 
Thomas married, or the date. We find he had a son Zachariah 2 b. 16^8 
Zachaeiah 2 b. 1628 in England, d. Aug. 5, 1702, m Elizabeth dau of 
John Sills, Oct. 28, 1652; they had ch. EMzabeth 3 b April 28, lbo4, 
Zachraiah 3 b. Sept. 27, 1657, John 3 b. April 10, 1660, d June 4 1660, 
Joseph 3 b. 1661, Thomas 3 b. July 3, 1664, d. 1676. Hannah 3^, b. March 
4 1666 Margaret 3 b. July 3, 1668, Thomas 3 b. Sept. la, 16 < 6, d. Sept. 
27, 1676, John 3 b. Sept. 15, 1676, d. Sept. 25, 1676. -.^no v, i 

Joseph 3 b. 1661 d. 1746, m. Bethiah dau. of John Green, 1693, who d. 
April 12, 1708, m. 2d Rebecca Palfrey Nov. 19, 1716, ch. all by 1st wife: 
Joseph 4 b. 1694, Ruth 4 b. 1696, Elizabeth 4 b. 1698 Mary 4 b. 1700, 
Zachariah 4 b. 1702, Hannah 4 b. 1703, Mercy 4 b. 1705, Samuel 4 b. 1708 
Joseph 4 b. 1694, d. April 8, 1755 at Amagansett, came to E. H. about 
1720, m. 1st Elizabeth Bishop Aug. 3, 1721, m. 2d Bethiah dau. ot Ana-, 
nias Conkling, May 27, 1731; he had ch. Bishop bap July 22 1722,. 
Joseph 5 b. March 25, 1725,^Samuel 5 bap. May 22 1726, Green 5 bap. 
June 16, 1728, d. Jan. 7, 1729, Green 5 bap. Dec. 21 1729 d Nov 17o2 
Elizabeth 5 bap. May 14, 1732, Bethiah 5 bap. March 31, 1734, Mary o 
bap. Dec. 9, 1739. , ^^ „ 

Joseph 5 b. March 25, 1725, d. Jan. 14, 1797, at Amagansett, m. Han- 
nah dau. of Jacob Schellenger Nov. 10, 1745; they" had ch Elizabeth b, 
b April 13, 1746, Zachariah 6 b. Nov. 1, 1749, Jacob 6 b. June 14 1752, 
m. Betsey Hand of Sag-Harbor, rem. about 1775 to Mass., Lydia 6 b.. 
Aug 22, 1754, d. Jan. 17, 1797 unmd., Hannah 6 b Sept. 28, 17o6, Daniel 
B 6 b Dec. 26, 1759, rem. to Ohio abt- 1780, Ruth 6 b. April 11, 1762, 
Mary 6 b. April 25, 1764, Joseph 6 b. April 18, 1766, d. Nov. 4, 1/84, 
Ruth 6 b. July 4, 1771 d. unmd. .. -o ^. 

Zachaeiah 6 b. Nov. 1, 1749, d. Oct. 6, 1833 at Amagansett, m. Rebec- 
ca dau. of Jacob Sherrill, Feb. 7, 1781, they had ch. J.-icob 7 b. Jan. 10, 
1782 rem. when young; SaUiuel 7 b. Oct. 7, 1783, rem. to NeW Hartford, 
N Y in 1804 was one of the Presidential Electors for John Quincy Ad- 
ams j Belsey 7 b. Jan. 23, 1786, d. July 26, 1874, m. l^^t John Dimoa, Sr 
m. 2d Capt. Henry Nickerson; Joseph 7 b. Jan. 24, 1/89, d. July 10,li.M 
unmd ; Polly 7 b. May 9, 1790, d. MlTy 17, 1881 unmd ; Rebecca 7 b. Feb. 
2, 1793, d. Nov. 14, 1865, m. Joseph L^aids Jan. 1815; alonJZ b. dul\ 



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10, 17n5, d. same clay; Hannah 7 b. July 10, 1795, d. Aue. 2, 1826, m. 
John Diniou, Jr. June 20, 1819: Lydia 7 b. Dec. 10, 1798, d.Jiiue 16,1873, 
m. Thus. Williams, Oct. 6, 1823. 

THE HUNTTING FAMILY. / 

COMPILED BY TEUNIS D, HUNTTING, ESQ. 

'^ John Huntting 1, the first one of this name in America, was born in 
Koxsee, a village m Suffolk County, England, about 1597, married Hes- 
ter Seaborn, who was a second cousin of John Eogers, the "martyr," 
in 1617, and with his family came to Dedham, Mass., in the Spring of 
1638. He d. there April 12, 1689 and had ch. John 2 b. abt. 1628, in Eng- 
land, Samuel 2 b. July 22, 1640, Nathaniel 2 b. Dec. 15. 1643, d. Feb. 1, 
1644, Matthew 2 b. March 6, 1648. Margaret 2 b. in England ra. Robert 
Ware; Mary 2 b. in England m. Wm. Jay; Hester 2 b. in England m. 
N. Fisher Dec. 26, 1649 ; Elizabeth 2 b. in England m." John Pecke. 
, John 2 b. abt. 1628, d. Sept. 19, 1718 at Dedham, Mass., m. Elizabeth, 
dau. of Thomas Paine, April 18, 1671, and had ch. John 3 b. May 30. 1672 
m. Mary Fisher; Thomas 3, b. March 24, 1674, d. May 9, 1676; Nathan- 
iel 3 b. Nov. 15, 1675; Esther 3 b. Nov. 19, 1677, m. Wm. Avery; Eebec- 
ca 3 b. Jan. 14, 1679, d. May 20, 1696; Samuel 3 b. March 14, 1681, d. 
March 9, 1704 unm ; Elizabeth 3 b. Feb. 2, 1683, m. John Fisher; Eben- 
ezer 3 b. Jan. 1, 1684, m. Sarah Haas; Stephen 3 b. May 14, 1688, m. Ke- 
becca Woodward ; Jonathan 3 b. Jan. 27, 1690, m. iluth Fisher. 

Nathaniel 3 b. Nov. 15, 1675 at Dedham, Mass. d. Sept. 24, 1753. A 
giaduate of Harvard College in 1693, m. Mary dau. of John Green, of 
Boston, Oct. 27, 1701. He was the 2d pastor of the church at East- 
Hampton, being the successor of Eev. Thos. James. Installed on Sept. 
13, 1699, after acting as a supply for three years. He occupied that 
pulpit just 50 years. Had ch. Nathaniel 4 b. Aug. 1702, Edward 4 b. 
Feb. 1704, Mary 4 b. May 1706 d. Sept. 1706, John 4 b. Sept. 14, 1707, 
Samuel 4 b. April 1710 d. May 12, 1773, m. 1st Mary dau. of David Gard- 
iner, 4th proprietor of Gardiner's Island, May 17, 1736, m. 2d Zerviah 
Ehodes, of Newport, E. I. May 31. 1746 : x-em. to Southampton abt. 1735 ; 
Joseph 4 b. March 1711 d. Aug. 11, 1711; Mary 4 b. Sept. 1713 m. Joseph 
Coit, of New Loudon ; Jonathan 4 b. Oct. 1714, m. Etither dau. of Mat- 
thew Mulford Nov. 16, 1742, d. Sept. 3, 1750, rem. to Denville. N. J. ; ii, 
son 4 b. Nov. 1716 d. in infancy : Elizabeth 4 b. Oct. 1718, d. July 17, 1719. 

Nathaniel 4 b. Aug 1702, d. July 18, 1770, m. Ma)y dau. of William 
Hedges Sept, 11, 1728, had ch. Nathaniel 5 b. 1730, Joseph 5 b. Dec. 1731, 
d. Sept. 30, 1738, Mary 5 b. May 1735, d. Aug. 30, 1738, William 5 b. June 
3, 1738, Joseph 5 b. Aug. 174®. 

Edward 4 b. Feb. 1704, d. April 10, 1745; a graduate of Harvard Col- 
lege 1725, m. Mercy dau. of Isaac Mulford, Dec. 16, 1730; they had ch. 
Mercy 5 b. 1731, m. Thomas Wickhani ; Isaac M. 5 b. Nov. 17, 1732, d. 
Feb. 3. 1812 : was 1st Lieut, of 2d Co. 3 Eeg. of Minute men in 1776, rem. 
to Duchess Co. N. Y. in 1783 ; Edward 5 b. 1733, d. Aug. 1738 ; Meheta- 
ble 5 b. 1739, m. E. Jones; Edward 5 b. 1741, a physician, rem. to Fish- 
kill, N. Y. 1783; Mary 5 b. 1743. 

John 4 b. Sept. 14, 1707, d. March 14, 1768, m. Mrs. Clemence Parsons 
Corklin March 21, 1728; they had ch. Elizabeth 5 b. 1729, m. Burnett 
Miller; Euth 5 b. 1731, m. Jeremiah Miller; Mary 5 b. 1733. m. David 
Osborn; Phebe 5 b. 173<), m. 1st Col. David Mulford, 2d Wm. Eysam ; 
Clemence 5 b. 1738 m. Jacob Sherrill; Lucretia 5 b. 1740 m. Ananias 
Miller ; Temperance 5 b. 1744, m. Eleazur Conklin ; Jerusha 5 b. 1748 
m. Daniel Hedges , Esther 5 m. Thomas Chatfield. 



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Nathaniel 5 b. April 1730, rl. Sept. 1801, m. Mary dau. of Major John 
Murdock, and they had ch. Mary G b. 1755, John 6 b. Sept. 16, 1757, 
Abigail 6 b. 1759, Phebe (5 b. 17G2 in. David Miller, Anna 6 b. Nov. 24, 
17G3 111. Abraham Sherrill, Nathaniel 6 b. 17G7 unni., Marianna G b. 1770. 
Abraham G b. Jan. 23, 1773, Samuel 6 b. July 4, 1776, d. Aug. 4, 1818, 
rem. to New London, Conn. 1800, Fanny 6 b. 1779, m. Nathaniel Sands. 

William 5 b. Juno 3, 1738, d. July G, 1816, ra. Puah Osborn, and they 
had ch. William 6 b. Juno 16, 1769, d. June 30, 1769; William 6 b. Aug. 
15, 1770, d. June 24, 1771 ; a son 7 b. Sept. 29, 1771. d. in infancy ; Jere- 
miah G b. Oct. 24, 1772 ; Puah G b. June 7, 1775, d. June 25, 1775 ; a dau. 6 
b. June 24, 1776, d. in infancy; Jonathan 6 b. Feb. 13, 1788, d. Dec. 30, 
1850, m. Julia R. Sayre Sept. 20, 1808, rem. to Southold, N. Y. : Mercy G 
b. Feb. 24, 1781, m. Abraham Osborn. 

Joseph 5 b. Aug. 1740. d. -June 6, 1771, m. Sarah Hedges and they had 
ch. Mary 6 b. 17G2, Joseph G b. June 25, 1766, rem. to Duchess Co., N. Y. 
1783, from there to Schoharie Co. soon after; Elizabeth G b. 1768, d. June 
1, 1773; Jonathan 6 b. 1771, d. Oct. 23, 1771 ; a son 6 b. 1773 d. infancy. 

John 6 b. Sept. 16, 1757, d. Feb. 7, 1836, m. Mrs. Elizabeth Dayton 
Jan. 23, 1793 ; they had ch. Nathaniel 7 b. Nov. 5, 1793 ; Joseph R. 7 b. 
July 11, 1796, rem. to Jamaica, N. Y. ; James M. b. Aug. 5. 1798, rem. to 
Jamaica, K. Y. ; Matthew b. Sept. 16, 1800- rem. to Jamaica, N. Y. : 
Smith S. 7 b. Feb. 4, 1809, d. Feb. 9, 1809. 

Abraham 6 b. Jan. 23, 1773. d. Nov. 15, 1851, m. Mary dau. of Deacon 
Abraham Mulford June 16, 1794, and had ch. Mary Maria 7 b. Feb. 16. 
1795, m. Joseph Osborn June 15, 1812 ; Abraham M. 7 b. Feb. 1, 1797, d. 
May 18. 1887, rem. to Pike, N. Y. in 1816 ; Anna S. 7 b. July IS. 1799, m. 
Edward Jones April 21, 1823, she d. June 25, 1872 ; John M. 7 b. Sept. 
27, 1801 ; Samuel M. 7 b. Sept. 27, 1801, d. Jan. 18. 1826 uum. ; Francis 
S. 7 b. Nov. 2, 1S05, d. April 14, 1887 unm. ; Emeline G. 7 b. Feb. 5, 1808, 
m. 1st Abrain C. Hedges, 2d Samuel Sandford, she d. Jan. 16, 1851 ; 
George W. 7 b. March 15, 1812, J. Madison 7 b. March 15, 1812, I. Otis 7 
b. Oct. 7, 1815, d. May 31, 1892 unm. 

Jekemiah 6 b. Oct. 24, 1772, d. June 19, 1845, m. Charity dau. of Dea. 
David Hedges Dec. 20, 1810 and had ch. Jeremiah 7 b. Dec. 3, 1811, Sa- 
rah H. 7 b. July 26, 1813, David H. 7 b. May 22, 1815, d. Feb. 18, 1885, m. 
Phebe D. Edwards d. s. p. ; William 7 b. Oct. 17, 1817, d. Dec. 20, 1893, 
m. Fanny Barns d. s. p. : Mary A. 7 b. Sept. 3, 1820, d. Dec. 2.9, 1869; 
Abby H. 7 b. April 3, 1823.. m. Sept. 19, 1844. John Patty. 

Nathaniel 7 b. Nov. 5, 1793, d. Jan. 4, 18G7. m. 1st Beulah Hand Dec. 
14, 1827. she d. Oct. 6, 1833, 2d Mary E. Tuthill Feb. 22, 1837, and had 
ch. Elizabeth H. 8 b. Sept. 15, 1830, d. Dec. 23. 1877, she in. Jolin Dayton 
and had ch. Mrs. F. A. Cartwright of E. H. and Mrs. Charles S. Parsons 
of Brooklyn, N. Y. 

John M. 7 b. Sept. 27, 1801, d. Aug. 19, 1870, m. Phebe P. S. Conklin, 
Sept. 13, 1827, had ch. Phebe S. C. 8 b. Aug. 25. 1828, d. Dec. 7, 1894, m. 
Marcus B. Hand, Feb. 1846. 

George W. 7 b. Marcli 15, 1812, d. March 31, 1888, m. Mary D. Strat- 
ton Oct. 23, 1835, and had ch. Alexander S. 8 b. June 25. 1840, Abbie J. 
D. 8 b. June 25, 1844, in. Johc H. Hunt April 28, 18G2. 

James Madison 7 b. March 15, 1812, d. March 14, 1868, in. 1st Mary 
Van, dau. of Sherrill Coukliu, Sept. 2, 1834, she d. April 30, 1845, m. 2d 
Mary E. dau. of John Dimou, Jr. Aug. 12, 1846, ch. Adelaide T. H b. Feb. 
7, 1839, ni. Thos. D. Barnes Oct. 25, 1860, Cecelia R. 8 b. Sept. 28, 1842, 
d. Jan. 10. 1867, m. William P. Howell Nov. 15, 18G6, Tennis D. 8 b. Sept. 
22, 1848. 

Jeremiah 7 b. Dec. 3, 1811, d. Jan. 4, 1867, m. Joanna A. dau. of Chas. 



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K. Hand, 1839, they had ch. William L. 8 b. Nov. 30, 1840, rem. to West 
Hartford, Conn., diaries H. 8 b. Jan. 3, 1844:, rem to Hartford, Conn., 
Jeremiah 8 b. Nov. 7, 1846, David H. 8 b. July 22, 1851, Samuel B. 8 b. 
Sept. 22, 1854, d. May 13, 1887 unm., John P. 8 b. June 19, 1859, m. Ella 
K. Parsons, rem. to AVest Hartford, Conn., Mary E. 8 b. Feb. 22, 1862, 
James Edward 8 b. Sept. 17, 1865. 

AiiEXANDEE S. 8 b. June 25, 1840, m. Fanny Topping June 20, 1866 and 
had ch. John S. 9 b. June 1, 1871, d. Aug. 21, 1871. 

Teunis D. 8 b. Sept. 22, 1848, m. 1st Gi-orgiauna W. Hammond April 
20, 1871, she d. Jau 22, 1880, 2d Jessie I. Hobkirk March 9, 1881, and rem. 
to Brooklyn, N. Y. in 1868; they have ch. Grace M. 9 b. April 10, 1874, 
d. July 26, 1874, Ethel L. B. 9 b. June 13, 1878, d. Aug. 15, 1878, George 
H. 9 b. Jan. 3, 1880. 

Jekemiah 8 b. Nov. 7, 1846, m. Phebe Jeannette, dau. of Daniel Os- 
born Dec. 'ol, 1874, they had ch. Florence W. 9 b. Oct 27, 1875, m. Everett 
J. Edwards Dec. 1, 1892, Daniel O. 9 b. Sept. 22, 1878, Mary 9 b. Noy. 16, 
1887. 

David H. 8 b. July 22, 1851, m. Harriet dau. of S. Hedges Miller, Oct. 
17, 1871, thev have ch. Carrie 9 b. May 23. 1874, Jeremiah M. 9 b. June 
10, 1882, Elizabeth E. 9 b. July 23, 1884, David H. 9 b. Sept. 9, 1888, d. 
Sept. 24, 1888, a ch. b. Jan. 5. 1891, d. March 9, 1891. 

James Madison Huntting 7, son of Abraham 6 and Mary Mulford 
Huntting, was born at East-Hampton, N. Y. March 15, 1812, 
and died there March 14, 1868. He was first married Sept. 2, 1834, to 
Mary Van, daughter of Sherrill and Polly Sherriil Conklin, by whom he 
had two children : Adelaide T. and Cecelia R. She died April 30, 1845. 
His second wife was Mary E. daughter of John Dimon, of Brooklyn, N. 
Y^. who he married Aug. 12, 1846, and by her he had one child, Teunis 
D. who is now living in Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1834 Mr. Huntting began 
his mercantile cai'eer, continuing it until 1874, when he retired. For 
many years he had charge of the monies of the townspeople, investing 
them in various institutions, such as banks, railroads and manufactur- 
ing companies. In this he was successful, meeting with but few losses, 
considering the amount he had invested for the people. He was the 
moving spirit in organizing the Sas-Harbor Savings Bank, in 1862, and 
was its first President, which office he held until his death. For many 
years he was President of Board of Trustees of the Presbyterian Church 
at East-Hampton. It was through his efforts the new church edifice 
was erected in 186C ; he giving the site on which it stands, and solicit- 
ing funds with which to build it. He was chairman of the local com- 
mittee, of the Sanitary Commission, organized for the purpose of col- 
lecting hospital supplies and other necessities for the "Boys in Blue" 
at the front in the civil war of 1861-5. He was not an active politician, 
the only political office he ever held, or would accept the nomination 
for, was that of Justice of the Peace, serving one term in 1851-3. 

Note by H. P. Hedges. — He was exact, systematic, a recorder of 
events, like his great ancestor, Rev. Nathaniel. By the courtesy of his 
son Tevinis D. the extracts from his journal were furnished for this 
publication. See ante p. 234. 



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THE MILLEE FAMILY. 

There is a tradition that the fust settler of this family in East Hamp- 
ton was John Miller, who died soon after settlement here ; that his 
wife was daughter of Minister Abraham Piersou, and that he left sons 
John. Andrew and George. All this maybe so, and the records show 
that John and Andrew were brothers. ' Yet the early history of the Mil- 
ler family is a dark abyss not fully sounded. The tradition that Eleazar 
Miller, the Assemblyman, was grandson of John 1 and son of George 2, 
stated by Thompson and others, is an error. This George 2 died from 
the kick of a horse, in IGGS. Eleazar died in 1788, in the 92d year of his 
age, so born about 1G86 or 7, long after George 2 died. In the Southold 
Town Kecords is a notice of a George there, said to have removed to 
East-Hampton, which may be this George 2. By the will of John Mul- 
ford, dated December 4, 1G83, proved Nov. 13, 1686, his youngest daugh- 
ter Mary is named as "wife of Jeremy Miller." The tombstone of Jere- 
my Miller records him as Lieut, and his death Jan. 2, 1723, and age as 
G7, so born in lGo5, and the tombstone of his widow as dying in 1748, eo 
95, so born about 1G53, and the will of this widow names sons Eleazar, 
Josiah and Jeremiah. Josiah died Oct. 4, 1770, aj 81; Eleazar died in 
1788, SB 91 ; Jeremiah died March 15, 1756, so GG ; and they were born, 
Josiah in 1689, Jei'emiah in 1690 and Eleazar in 1697. This Jeremiah 
was probably the Yale graduate in 1709, a distinguished citizen of New 
London, Ct., who married the daughter of Governor Saltonstall, ajid 
was father of the eminent Jeremiah of Eevolutionary days, both men- 
tioned as men of mark in Calkins' History of New London. The record 
of titles conlirms the belief that we are on solid ground. The Home 
Lot of George Miller 2 was devised in the will of Josiah 4 to his sou 
Jeremiah 5, and by the will of that Jeremiah 5, dated in 1790, proved 
in 1794, is devised as -'the old lot joining Daniel Hedges southerly," to 
his son Jeremiah 6, who died June 28, 1803, as 55. This same Home 
Lot sold, and afterwards bought back at a great price by Huntting Mil- 
ler 6, son of Jeremiah 5, and grandson of Josiah 4, because it was an 
old family inheritance, marks this line as that of the first George 2, son 
of John 1. The conclusion seems clear that the line runs thus : John 1, 
George 2 d. in 1668, Jeremiah 3 d. in 1712 on 67, Eleazar 4 d. March 15, 
1788 03 91, Burnett 5 b. Oct. 15, 1719, Matthias Burnett 6 b. Oct. 15, 1749, 
Morris S. 7 b. July 31, 1779. d. Nov. 24, 1824, Eutgers B. 8 b. July 28, 
1805, d. Nov. 12, 1877, Henry S. 9 b. Sept. 5, 1836, an honored citizen 
resident in Utica, N. Y., to whom I am indebted for much information 
regarding this family, who for iive generations in this line, beginning 
with Eleazar 4, have been, as he was, "Assemblymen." The grave of 
Burnett Miller 5, I am told, is in Plattsburg, N. Y., where he died. His 
sou Matthias Burnett 6 died of yellow fever in Savannah. Morris S. 7 
and Eutgers 8 were distinguished citizens of Utica, N. Y. The New- 
York Civil List and the Ee'cords of the Town of East-Hampton, attest 
the patriotism and worth of this remarkable family. Yale College in 
Saybrook, Conuecticuc, in the days of Abraham Pierson its first Presi- 
dent, and it may be uncle of the Jeremiah 4, grad. in 1709, was then 
comparatively easy of access by water to East-Hampton, on which its 
lirbt rays of light s'hone with brightness. If the traditionary relation- 
ship to the first Yale President be accepted, who can say that the 
names in the Miller line were unworthy of such high lineage? Lack of 
space, not deeds, constrains brevity. Eemember tliat of the 3 sons of 
Jeremiah 3, Jeremiah 4 went to New Loudon after graduation, Burnett 5 
son of Eleazar 4 removed from East-Hampton during the Eevolutii)ua,ry 
war, and Abraham 5, sou of Eleazar 4, known as ■ -Judge Miller," resid- 



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ed in East-Hampton, on the lot now the homestead of Jeremiah Mul- 
ford, and died there March 19, 1820. aa 77 years. His daughter Polly 6, 
widow of Piatt Smith, died there March 8, 1814, aj 81. Her son Abra- 
ham Smith, of Newburg, X. Y. died in Prairie DuChieii, Wis., unmarried 
and without issue. Her daughter married an Ackerly, who had son 
Jacamiah and dau. wile of Frederick W. Lord, M. D. and the son and 
daughter of the latter Avere the only issue of Judge Abraham Miller 5. 

Ch. of Eleazak Mtllek 4, Burnett 5 b. Oct. 15, 1719, Elizabeth 5 b. 
]Sov. 28, 1721, Jeremiah 5 b. Jan. 11, 1723, Mary 5 b. Sept. 12. 1726, Je- 
mima 5 b. May 28, 1730, Mehitabel 5 b. April 13, 1733, Eleazar 5 b. March 
30, 1736, Nathaniel 5 b. Dec. 9, 1738, Abraham 5 b. Jan. 16, 1742. 

Burnett 5 b. Oct. 15, 1719, s. of Eleazar 4, had a s. Dr. John Miller 6 
b. March 15, 1760, m. 1st Margaret Smith, 1788, and had 2 daus. Eliza 
Huntting 6 and Maria ; m. 2d Elizabeth Smith, sister-in-law, and thej"^ 
had ch. Margaret Piatt 6, Catherine 6 and Samuel 6 d. s. p. and Maria 6 
d. s. p. ; Margaret Piatt 6 m. Benjamin Mooers and they had twelve eh. 
Catherine Phebe 6 b. Aug. 6, 1800, m. Matthew ; Matthew Standish Col. 
7 (son of Zachariah 6, Zachariah 5, Zachariah'4, Ebenezer 3, Alexander 2 
Miles 1) of Plattsburgh, N. Y. b. Aug. 18, 1794, he d. June 28, 1866, she d. 
July 16. 1866, they had dau. Mary Elizabeth b. Oct. 1, 1819 who m. April 
18, 1839 Isaac W. E. Bromley, she d. Sept. 21, 1852, they had ch. Miles 
Standish, Zachariah, Margaret iJaria, Harriet Smith, John Miller. Geo. 
Henry, Matthew Miles, Caroline Leslie, Abraham Smiih. 

Eliza Huntting 6 m. Jan. 1, 1803, Levi Piatt, s. of Judge Zephaniah 
Piatt of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. and thcj had 12 ch. David 7, Mai'garet 
Elizabeth 7, Mary Louisa 7. Robert 7, JohnMilltr7, Helen 7, Levi 7, 
Jonas 7, Susan Henrietta 7, James 7, William Pitt 7 and Peter Magnault 7 
of whom David 7 d. a3 11 yrs., Robert 7 d. young, John M. 7 d. unm. 
James 7 d. unm., all the 'ithers m. and left ch. 

JosiAH 4 s. of Jeremiah 3 d. Oct. 4. 1770, ai 81. His will dated Feb. 3, 
1768, proved Nov. 26, 1770, names his sons .josiah 5 and Jeremiah 5, 
grandson David 6 s. of Josiah 5, dau. Phebe Parsons 5 (w. of John Par- 
sous 4) and s. Matthew 5 a cripple. The history of two tankards given 
by Josiah 4, one to his daughter Phebe 5 and one to his son Jeremiah 5, 
confirms this genealogy. Jeremiah 5 gave tankard to his son Jeremiah 6 
and he to his son Gen. Jeremiah 7, and he to iiis son Jeremiah 8, and 
he to his nephew Jeremiah Miller Domiuy 9 ; Phebe 5 gave her tankard 
to her daughter Mary 6 w. of Jeremiah Osborn, and thence it passed to 
his daughter Phebe P. 7 w. Zephaniah Hedges, and thence to her son 
Henry P. Hedges H, and thence to his son Samuel 0. 9. 

Jekemiah 5 b. 1727, d.July 11, 1794, ee 67, had w. Euth, and ch. Hunt- 
ting 6, Jeremiah 6, dau. Mary 6 w. of Samuel Buel, D. D. and grandson 
Sylvanus, and probably son Sylvanus, Surrogate of N. Y. 1801 to 7, 1811, 
1821. 

Hltntting 6 d. April 1, 1832, ee 78, had 2 daus. Nancy 7 1st w. of David 
Hedges, Jr. who d. s. p. and Mary 7 w. of Wilkes Hedges, of ISagg, 
whose son William iulierited his estate. 

Jeremiah 6 b. 1748, d. June 28, 1803, te 55, had w. and ch. Jere- 
miah 7, Samuel 7, Sylvanus 7, Susan 7, 1st wife of Zephaniah Hedges, 
Phebe 7 w. of Samuel Isaacs, aud Polly 7 wife of Seth Sherrill. 

Sylvanus 7 s. of Jeremiah 6 reuioved to Piattsbnrg. N. Y. ; he was b. 
Feb. 17, 1784 and m. Johana or Fanny Miller and tney had ch. Hunt- 
ting 8, Mary Adeline 8, Abraham 8 and Albert 8. 

HuNTTiNd 8 b. March 8. 1807, d. Sept. 20, 1«76, m. Maria Parsons b. 
Feb, 11, 1801, d. Dec. 25, 1887, had ch, Almira E. 9, AlberL \V. 9, Charles 
H. 9. 




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AT.MTKA E. 9 b. Nov. 29, 1833, m. Henry K. Averill, Jr. Jan. 19, 1854. 
and had ch. Frank L. 10, Edith M. P. 10, Graco Piatt 10, and Maria E. 10 
b. May 17. 1865, m. Oct. 8, 1887 Charles Sherrill Dayton, (sec Dayton 
and Sherrill scenealogy.) 

Maky ADELI21E 8, dan. of Sylvanus7, b. April 9, 1814, m. Hiram Sher- 
rill and they had ch. Sarah, David and Hiram, Jr., (see Sherrill gene- 
alogy.) , , , t 

Jekemiah 7 Genl. d. Jan. 6, 1839. a) G2 yrs. had w. Phebe. dau. ot 
Thos. Baker, who d. June 29, 1870, te 94, and ch. Nathan 8 d. s. p. Mch. 
11, 1815, ffi 15 yrs., Jeremiah 8 lawyer, d. s. p. Aug. 4, 1864, a) 59. and 
Mary 8 w. of Abel K. Conking, Phebe 8 w. of Felix Dominy, Helen 8 w. 
of Henry D. Stratton, Rosalie 8 w. of Capt. Edward M. Baker, who all 
have descendants, and JuanJ^who was unm. and d. s. p. Feb. 2, 1852 ec 
35 yrs. and Theodorus 8 (h-ownecTTn Indian Ocean Jan. 15. 1830, ob 18. 

Samuel 7 ^r.bV. Tan. 30, "17817 dTl^ee. 21, 1856, had 1st w. Phebe G 
d. Aug. 5, 1811, 83 27 
7 dys., Charles H. 8 

D. Condit who d. s. ^, , . ,. ^ , 

10, 1866, a3 73, and dau. Phebe G. 8 w. of Rev. Robert D. Gardiner, antt .nl . 
they had s. Samuel M. Gardiner who rem. to Derby, Conn, and left ch. I ' 4-i 

Charles H. 8 s. of Samuel 7 had w. Juliett Hand, dau. of Nathaniel ^p , j3 
Hand, who d. April 13. 1871, sn 59 yrs. and they had ch. Samuel H. J b. ' "vrj 

July 1, 1833. -^ ^ ., -.oAc, 

Samuel H. 9 b. July 1, 1833, m. Laura Virginia Candy b. Feb. 14. 1842 
and they had ch. Charles Candy 10 b. Nov. 25, 1860, an infant dau. 10 b 
Nov. 4. 1866, d. Nov. 20, 1866, Condit Smith 10 b. Sept. 11, 1868, Ernest 10 
b. Dec. 10, 1873 : Charles Candy 10 has w. Nina May Salsbury. 

Daniel Millek 4, resident of Appaquogue, was an active business 
man, prominent in town affairs from 1700 on for 40n years, and is the 
known ancestor of George A. Miller, the pres-ut Supervisor of the - 
town, who has contributed many facts following. It is probable this 
Daniel 4 was the son of John 3, s. of George 2, the s. of John 1 the first 
settler. In his line the names of Daniel and John are both perpetuated. 
In the burying ground of the Appaquogue Millers were buried three 
John Millers, the first d. March 1, 1791, in the 85th year cf his age, and 
is probably the Joliu 5 s. of Daniel 4 bap. March 16, 1706-7 ; the second 
John 6 d Nov. 11, 1808. in the 69th year of his age ; the third John 7 d. 
Oct. 26, 1836 in the 69th year of his age. In the tax lists of 1675 one 
John is taxed ; in 1683 two Johns. Sr. and Jr. John Sr. who resided in 
the 2d home lots and sold his .homestead between 1698 and 1701, with 
much other land, thereafter disap[)ears from the town records, without 
known descendants or record of death, and probably removed from the 
town. That accounts for John 2 s. of John 1. The oldest son of Geo. 2 
was John 3 (see T. R. Vol. Ill, p. 21.) ; but John 3 d. in 1738. fc 84 years 
and 8 months was the uncle ot Hezekiah and Nathan, who were the 
sons of George 3 who died in 1712, (see T. R. Vol. Ill, p. 289.) George 2 
had three sons, John 3 the eldest, Cornelius 3 and George 3, and the 
line would run thus : John 1, George 2, Jidin 3, Daniel 4, Timothy 5, 
Elisha 6. Asa 7, Georgp S. 8, George A. 9 Supervisor. Also the hue 
would then run thus : JoJin 1, George 2, John 3, Daniel 4, John 5, John. 
6, John 7. The last three Johns are known to be succet-.sively descend- 
ants each of his predecessor. Th-e last John 6 had ch. John 7, Daniel 7, 
Enoch 7, Asa 7, Jacob 7, George 7, Elias 7,'and daus. one of whom was ^ 
the wife of John Parsons, one the wif.- of David Parsons, Mary 7 w. ot 
Joshua Terry and Temperance 7 w. of James C. Hoe, of N. Y. city. 
George 3 s. of George 2 d. in 1712 and had s. Nathan 4 and Hezekiah 4, 



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uophews of John 3, (sec T. E. Vol. Ill, p. 289.) Hezekiah 4 d. Sept. 1, 
1720, a> 37 years. But Nathan 4 had ch. bap. Uriah 5 in 1721, Rachel 5, 
1723. Esthers, 1729, Amy 5, 1733, Abraham 5, 173G, and later in 1746; 
prubablyhis s. Uriah 5 has bap. ch. Nathan 6, Mary 6, Temperance 6 in 
1751. Abraham ('. in 1760 and Uriah 6 in 1771, probably an adult. It 
seems almost certain that the liue runs thus : John 1. George 2, George 
3, Nathan 4, Uriah 5, Nathan 6, Uriah 7, b. Oct. 1, 1784, bap. Nov. 29, 
1784, George Lewis 8, George H. 9. 

Daniel Miller 4 was m. Dec. 11, 1700 to Elizabeth Buckland ; they had 
several ch. of whom John 5 resided at Appaquogue as aforesaid. Gar- 
diner 7, s. of Timothy 6. grandson of Timothy 5, and great grandson of 
Daniel 4, told me that this Daniel 4, at Appaquogue with his sons and 
negro slaves, took a wnale and sold oil enough to buy a farm, on which 
he settled his sou Timothy 5 b. June .4, 1710, at the Fire Place, which 
seems probable. Timothy 5 had 1st w. Temperance Conkling, who d. 
Nov. 23, 174.. and 2d Hannah Stratton, July 30, 1741. His will in 1769 
names sons Dauiel 6, Timotliy 6, Peleg 6, Elisha G, David 6, Daus. (Zer- 
via 6 m at Amagansett) Temperance 6, Elizabeth 6, Hannah 6 and 
Charlotte 6. The s. Daniel 6 rem. to Eockland Co. and had s. Daniel 7 
who it is reported was father of Mrs. Jay irould. The s. Peleg 6 rem. 
to Franklin, N. Y. where his descendants now reside. 

David G remained on the homestead at Fireplace. 

Timothy 6 aud Elisha G settled at the Springs. 

Timothy G s. of Timothy 5 had sons Timothy 7, Gai-diner 7, and per- 
haps others. 

David 7 s. of David 6 remained at the Fireplace, and was father of 
the present Samuel D. 8 there residing. 

I^lDiSHA 6 fc. of Timothy 5 had w. Abigail Tuthill and ch. Temperance 7 
w. of Nathaniel Domiuy, Elisha 7 d. young, Nathaniel, M. D. 7 of Brook- 
haven (father|of Nathl.8 of Brookhaven, lately deed.), Barnabas 7, Cath- 
arine 7 of Schuyler Co. N. Y., Tuthill 7 aud Cynthia 7 d. s. p. aud Asa 7 
who rem. to N. Y. city and returned and lived and died at the old home- 
stead at the Springs. 

Nathaniel" M. D. 7 had s. DeWitt 8 who was drowned, d. s. p. and 
Nathaniel 8 named above, and daus. Mai-y 8 and Sarah 8 who m. Wm. 

aud Geo. Audrews, Caroline 8 who m. Green of Sayville and Jeru- 

sha 8 residing at Port Jervis. 

Baknabus 7 had no s. and only 1 dan. 

Asa 7 had s. Geoi ge S. 8, who had s. George A. 9, present Supervisor 
as above. 

Mrs. George W. Curtis, of Hartford, Conn., states that Rev. Samuel 
Miller, of Wallingford. Conn., was born on Long Island in 1773; that 
his father was Jacob Miller aud his mother Elizabeth Filer. That 
Jacob Miller, in Revolutionary times, took his family in a whale boat 
to the main land, near New Haven, Ct., and resided there. Who will 
track this liueV This name is one signed to the combination to stand 
by Boston in 1775. See ante, p. 221. 

Nathan 6 has an unnamed child bap. in 1775 and ch. Nathan 7 in 1777, 
Elizabetli 7 in 1779. Jerusha 7 in 1782, Uriah 7 Nov. 29, 1784, b. Oct. 1, 
1784. This last Uriah 7, residing in the Hook, had father Nathan 6 and 
he Uriah 5, and he Nathan 4 as aforesaid. The Family Bible of Nath- 
an G has tl;is record of ch. of himself aud w. Mary : Maiy 7 b. Sept. 25, 
1775, Nathan 7 b. May 18, 1777, Phebe 7 b. Aug. 15, 1779, Jerusha 7 b. 
March 5, 1782, Uriah 7 b. Oct. 1, 1784, Joanna 7 b. Oct. 4, 1786, Esther 7 
b. Oct. 12, 1787, Abraham 7 b. April 11, 1792. Esther 7 m. Dea. Stephen 
Hedges. Abraham 7, Nathan 7 and 3 sisters went to Plattsburg, N. Y. 



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[TiiTAH 7 resided "in the Heok" and had w. Betsey (Baker) and eh. 
Nathan 8 b. June 26, 1813, Abraham 8 b. Aug. 24, 1816, George Lewis 8 b 
Nov. IG, 1821, Mary Baker 8 b. May 26, 1824, d. March 20, 1828, Betsey 7 
b. Feb. 5, 1830. Uriah 7 d. April 3, 1859, eo 74 yrs. G mos; his w. Betsey 
d. Sept. 19, 1872, a- 86 yrir. 2 nios. Their ch. are all deceased, leaving 
issue, except Mary, d. March 20, 1828. Abraham and his sister Betsey, 
w. of William Baiiies, rem. to Illinois. 

Geouge Lewis 8 had w. Caroline, dau. of Charles Eand, and rem. to 
Bridge-Hampton, and d. there March 30, 1887, se 65 years, and they had 
s. George H. 9 now residing there. 

There was a Uriah Miller 6 about the time of the Revolution residing 
in Sag-Harbor, and after that in Bridge-Hampton, who I think was 
uncle of the Uriah 7 "down Hook," and brother to Nathan 6. That 
Uriah 6 had seven ch. by each of two wives. By the 1st w. there were 
Uriah 7, Jessie 7, and four others. This son Uriah 7 is said to have 
rem. to Troy and had son iJoduey 8, a minister, probably Presbyterian. 
By the 2d w. were ch. Abraham 7, Squires 7, John Daj'ton 7, Fanny 7, 
Phebe 7 and Hannah 7. Sally 7 b. abt. 1784 m. Elias Ludlow and they 
had s. E. Jones Ludlow 8. Fanny 7 m. Abraham Payne and they had 
ch. S(iuires 7 had w. dau. of Capt. David Hedges and son Steven 
Hedges 8, now of Sag-Harbor; and 2d w. they had dau. Mariette 8 w. of 
Egbert H. Hildreth, and they had son Fred F. 9 now in Terre Haute, 
Indiana. 

COKTKIBUTED BY MABTHA MILIiEE. 

Andeew MiiiLEK, the first settler of Miller's Place, is said to have 
been an elder brother of one of the earlj settlers of East-Hampton. 
There is said to have been a memorandum among his papers of the 
purchase of land in the year 1659, and it is probable that he came here 
about that time. His name is also on the records of the town of Brook- 
haven for the same year as one o" the Town Trustees. It is also infer- 
red from various circumstances that he died at an advanced age in 
1717 or '18. His children were Andrew, John, Samuel, Eichard and 
Hannah. 

Andkew 2d settled in Miller's Place and died before his father, June, 
1716. The name of his wife is not known. His children were Andrew 
3d, William, Josiah, Ebenezer, Hannah and Joanna. 

John was drowned at the age of 28. 

Samuel went to N. J. and settled in the town of Greenwich, Cumber- 
land County. 

Richard settled in Miller's Place, married Dorothy WoodhuU, of Se- 
tauket, and had two daughters, Nancy who married Nathaniel Ruggles, 
ana Sarah who married Richard Woodhull, July 11, 1768. There was 
probably a third daughter, as Jonathan Mills, of Mills Pond, married 
for his second wife Dorothy Miller, and they had a son named Andrew. 

Hannah died young, in 1690. 

Andkew 3d was born June 19, 1695, settled in Miller's Place, and died 
in 1777. He married Mary Phillips, who ^as born Nov. 16, 1706. They 
had sixteen children, fourteen of whom lived to maturity. They were 
Rebecca b. Dec. 28, 1724, Sarah b. March 23, 1726, Andrew 4th b. Juno 
6, 1727, Josiah b. Aug. 22, 1728, John b. Jan. 14, 1730, Mary b. July 5, 
1731, Joseph b. March 15, 1733, Hannah b. May 15, 1734, Samuel b. Dec. 
24, 1735, Theophilus b. Sept. 1737, Joshua b. April 1738, Theophilus b. 
Nov. 2U, 1740, Hannah b. June 3, 1742, Joanna b. May 5, 1744, Deliver- 
ance b. Oct. 9, 1745, one name unknown b. Nov. 12, 1747. Five sons and 
five daughters of this family emigrated to N.J. Andrew occupied the 
old home. His history wilf be given later. John was drowned and 



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Mary married Selah Brown of Middle Island. Sarah married a Mr. 
Burnett of N. J. 

William, son of Andrew 2d, married Deliverance Mills, of Mills 
Ponds, settled in Miller's Place and had six children. "William, Timothy, 
Nathaniel, Ebenezer, Catherine, or as some records have it Keturah ('■') 
Sarah. "William was drowned in crossing from Elizabethtown to Staten 
Island in company with his cousin John Miller, sou of Andrew 3d. 
Timothy married Experience Davis, settled in Miller's Place, was made 
Captain of Militia, had eleveu children and died January 26, 1790, in the 
67th year of his age His wife died May 23, 1780, in the 55th year of her 
age. Nathaniel moved to Springfield, N. J. Ebenezer, born June 13, 
1737, settled in Miller's Place and was also Captain of Militia, married 
Sarah, daughter of Benajah Strong, of Setauket, had seven children, 
and died Nov. 15, 1785. His wife was born June 14, 1740, and died Feb- 
ruary 18, 1836, aged 95 years, 8 mouths and 4 days. Catherine married 
Dr. Dayton, of Elizabeth, N. J. and had one daughter named Charlotte. 
Sarah married Mr. Youngs of Springfield, N. J. Josiah, 3d son of An- 
drew 2d, settled in Retauket, married Sarah, daughter of Timothy 
Mills. They both died in 1726, about a year after their marriage. 

Ebenezar removed to Cumberland Co., N. J. 

Hannah married Isaac Mills, of Mill's Pond. 

Joanna married Thomas Helme of Miller's Place, had one sou named 
Thomas, and after the death of Mr. Helme married John Eoe. 

The children of Captain Timothy Miller were Deliverance b. Oct. 14, 
1747, married to Zophar Mills, March 4, 1767; a daughter b. April 23, 
1750, d. aged 3 weeks; a son b.. May 23, 1751. d. aged 10 weeks; Experi- 
ence b. Oct. 12, 1752, d. June 6, 1772; Nathaniel b. Dec. 20, 1754, d. Oct. 
9, 1798; Joanna b. June 23, 1757, d. Aug. 27, 1798; Keturah b. May 5. 
1760, m. Mr. Homan and d. April 30, 1831; Timothy b. Aug. 31, 1762; 
Joseph b. March 24, 1764, d. May 1, 1845 ; Zophar Mills b. Oct. 20, 1767 ; 
Betsey Parshall b. Fob. 5, 1771, d. Jan. 29, 1845. 

The children of Deliverance and Zophar Mills were Euth b. March 27, 
1768, m. Benjamin "Woodhul; Nathaniel b. Sept. 4, 3 769, d. May 26, 1832; 
Zophar b. Dec. 7, 1771 ; Gabriel b. Nov. 19, 1773 ; Experience b. Aug. 18, 
1777; Keturah b. Dec. 27, 1778; Fanny b. May 25, 1782, m. Stephen Ho- 
man; Esseverance b. Jan. 22, 1787, m. George Davis and d. Jan. 1876. 

Three daughters of Capt. Timothj^ Miller were not married : Experi- 
ence, Joanna and Betsey. Nathaniel, the eldest son, married Martha, 
daughter of Capt. Ebenezer Miller. They both died of yellow fever, 
she eight days after her husband, leaving three little girls, and a boy 
a year or two old. He lived to be loved and respected by all who knew 
him — our own Deacon Chai'leri Miller, of blessed memory. His grand- 
son (Samuel H. Miller) and one sister are still Jiving iu Miller's Place. 
Of the daughters, Charity married John Terry, Fanny married Bartley 
Tuthill and Clarissa married Nathaniel Tuthill, and they were the 
parents of Dr. Frank, Eev. George M., Hon. James H. and ElJsworth 
Tuthill. 

Timothy, the second sou, married Mehitable Brown and their chil- 
dren were Nathaniel, George (Judge), Polly, who married Capt. Hub- 
bard Grifflug, and Charlotte, who married Capt. James Tuthill. 

Joseph, third sou, married Jemima Eobbins, March 5, 1795. She was 
b. April 20, 1776, and d. July 27, 1860. Their children were William b. 
Jan. 25, 1796, d. Jan. 29. 1817; Daniel Eobbins b. Sepl. 19, 1797, d. June 
27, 1891; Patty b, Sept. 9, 18U0, m. Miller Woodhull, d. May 13, 1887, at 
Northville; Lewis b. April 16, 1804, d. Nov. 8, 1865, not married; John 
b. July 28, 1806, became an M. D,, married Maria Miller, his cousin, set- 



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tied in Setauket, afterwards went west and died there, time unknown. 
Daniel Eobbius Miller was married to Isabella Hawkins, Oet. 13, 1824; 
she died in about six months, and he was married to Martha Olive 
Mills on Oct. 10,1826. They had four children, two of whom died in 
childhood, and the other two, Charlotte Mills, now the widow of Dr. C. 
H. S. Millard, and Martha Helrae are residents of Miller's Place. Zo- 
phar Mills, fourth youngest son, married Betsey Davis. Thoy had 
seven daughters and one son, Sylvester Miller, whose only living son is 
Elihu S. Miller, of Floral Park. 

The children of Capt. Ebenezer Miller were Isaac b. Oct. 26, 1761, m. 
Eliza Cleaves and died July 2, 1814; Martha b. Feb. 9, 1763, m. Nathan- 
iel Milier; Charity b. Nov. 23, 1764, d. Aug. 24, 1766; William b. April 
15, 1766, was shot by plunderers while standing in the window of his 
father's house, near the close of the Eevolutionary war; Charity b. July 
30, 1770, d. Sept. 29, 1773; Clarissa b. Sept. 15, 1772, m. Samuel Brown, 
and died May 11, 1812; Benajah Strong b. Jan. 14, 1774, m. Sarah Conk- 
lin and d. June 19, 1813 ; his wife d. July 22, 1854; they had three chil- 
dren and the only descer;dants of theirs of the name of Miller, are Dr. 
James N. Miller, of Lay ton, N. J. and Miss Addie B. Miller of Miller's 
Place. The only descendants of Samuel and Clarissa Brown living here 
are Erastus Brown ami his daughter. 

Andkew Milier 4th married Deborah Koe, who d. March 23, 1822, ao 
88 years. They bad tea children, but I have the names of only six. 
John the eldest son, who lived to maturity, was drowned in 1784, sd 28 ; 
Julia died in 1827; Elizabeth died in 17U0 ; Mary m. M. Roe, d. in 1821; 
Deliverance b. Sept. 2, 1777. d. Oct. 17, I860; Sarah d. unmarried March 
30, 1849, 33 80 years. Deliverance became the second wife of Samuel 
Brown, whose tirst wife was Clarissa Miller, and they had two children, 
wh ) are still living, John Merrit in the old home and Julia A. in Port 
Jeffei"son. , 

I must make a correction in regard to Kichard Miller. It was prob- 
ably not the first of that name, who married Dorothy WoodhuU and 
was the father of the daughters mentioned, but his son or grandson. 
But little is known of his family. There was a man of the name who 
was Captain of a Ferry Company during the Eevolution, who was killed 
near Coram iu a skirmish with a company of Militia under the com- 
mand of Capt. Daniel Koe. 

Miller's Place, Oct. 14, 1896. 

MARTHA MILLER. 

THE MULFORD FAMILY. ^-^' 

CONTRIBUTED BY TEUNIS D. HUNTTING, ESQ. 

About the year 1643 there came to Southampton, from Salem, Mass., 
two brothers, John and William Mulford. Whei: East-Hampton was 
first settled they sold their belongings in Soutnampton and moved to 
the new settienient farther east. John was an active participant in 
political affairs and was commissioned a Judge by the Connecticut 
Council. William turned his attention to farming. 

John I b. in England abt. 1606, d. 1686, m. Mrs. Friedeswiede Osborn, 
widow of William Osborn, of Salem, Mass. ; they had ch. Samuel 2 b. 
1644, John 2 b. 1650; Mary 2 m. Jeremiah Miller, Hannah 2 m. Benjam- 
in Ct)nkliu and d. Feb. 4, 1712. 

Samitei, 2 b. 1644, d. Aug. 21, 1725, m. 1st Esther who d. Nov. 24, 

1717, m. 2d Sarah How(^li and had ch. Samuel 3 b. 1078, Timothy 3 b. 
1681, Elias 3 b. 1685, Mattliew 3 b. 1689. 

JoUN 2 b. 1650, d. Aug. 2'J, 1734, m. 1st who d. Aug. 11, 1705, m. 



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2d Mrs. Martha Conklin, wid. of Ananias, Jr. Sept. 19, 1733, had ch. 
John 3 b. abt. 1683, Isaac 3 b. abt. 1684. 

SamueIi 3 b. 1678, d. July 10, 1743 in Amagansett, m. Sarah — and had 
ch. Elizabeth 4 bap. July 15, 1705 ; she m. Oct. 22, 1724 Lewis Conklin. 

Timothy 3 b. 1G81, d. Dec. 11, 1741, m. Sarah and had ch. Amy 4 

bap. March 20, 1709, m. Stephen Hedges Dec. 26, 1727, Esther 4 bap. 
March 23, 1712, Timothy 4 bap. April 13, 1718, Christopher 4 bap. Aug. 
30, 1719, d. Oct. 13, 1719, Christopher 4 bap. Nov. 24, 1723, rem. to N. T., 
Ebenezer 4 bap. Nov. 24, 1723, d. Jan. 8, 1724, Sarah 4 bap. Aug. 18, 1728 
d. Sept. 14, 1728, Edward 4 bap. Feb. 8, 1730. 

Elias 3 b. 1685, d. Nov. 2, 1760. in Amagansett, m. Mary Mason June 
10, 1713 and had ch. Samuel 4 b. May 3, 1714, Mary 4 bap. Nov. 17, 1717, 
d. March 28, 1718, Mar/ 4 bap. March 6, 1720, d. Feb. 5, 1722, Elias 4 
bap. March 11, 1722. Elizabeth 4 bap. March 6, 1726, Phebe 4 bap. June 
29 1729. 

Matthew 3 b. 1689, d. April 27, 1774, m. Dec. 25, 1712 Elizabeth Chat- 
field and had ch. Elizabeth 4 b. Aug. 22, 1714, she m. John Gardiner 
May 26, 1737 and d. Oct. 21, 1754, Jerusha 4 bap. Aug. 29, 1714, m. AprN 
13, 1736 Jeremiah Hedges, Jonathan 4 bap. Dec. 15, 1717, Esther 4 bap. 
July 10^ 1719, who m. 1st Jonathan Huntting Nov. 16, 1742, she m. 2d 
Dr. John Darbe, she d. Sept. 1757, David 4 b. Sept. 10, 1722, Mary 4 b. 
Api'il 9, 1725, d. June 30, 1729, a son b. April 9, 1725, d. same day. 

John 3 b. abt. 1683, d. Jan. 5, 1725, m. who d. Jan. 17, 1727 ; they 

had ch. Mary 4 bap. May 11, 1707. d. Nov. 12, 1707, Josiah 4 d. Nov. 6, 
1726, John 4 bap. Julv 29, 1711, Mary 4 bap. 1715, d. Dec. 31, 1726, Han- 
nah 4 bap. Jan. 1719,' d. Dec. 30, 1726, Phebe 4 bap. Feb. 5, 1721, Nath- 
an 4 bap. Nov. 1, 1724, d. Dec. 28, 1726. ^ 

Isaac 3 b. abt. 1684, d. Jan. 9, 1774, m. Mercy Conklin May 10, 1705, 
and had ch. a son 4 b. Sept. 1709, d. Sept. 30, 1709, Isaac 4 bap. April 1, 
1711, Mercy 4 bap. March 9, 1712. m. Dec. 16, 1730 Edward Huntting, 
Phebe 4 bap. April 25, 1714, Mary 4 bap. Dec. 9, 1716, Abigail bap. JuK- 

6, 1718, 

Timothy 4 b. April 13, 1718, m. Oct. 26, 1738 Mary Dimon. of South- 
old ; they had ch. Mary 5 bap. Sept. 9, 1739, Timothy 5 b. Aug. 17, 1739, 
Sarah 5 bap. Jan. 30, 1743, Amy 5 bap. March 10, 1745, Cloa 5 bap. Dec. 

7, 1746, Jonathan 5 bap. Dec. 1751. 

Edwaed 4 bap. Feb. 8, 1730, m. Jan. 3, 1752 Anna Miller and had ch. 
a ch. 5 bap. Nov. 1752, Nathan 5 bap. Dec. 22, 1753. 

Samuel 4 b. May 3, 1714, d. June 15, 1795, m. Jan, 5, 1718 Zerviah 
Conklin and had ch. Mary 5 b. Nov. 13, 1740, d. Feb. 9, 1820, Esther 5 b. 

April 27, 1743, m. Hand, Zerviah 5 b. Feb. 24. 1745, d. Jan. 20, 1784, 

Elias 5 b. Aug. 16, 1747, rem-, to Northport, N. Y., Samuel 5 b. and d., 
Elizabeth 5 b. May 14, 1750, a son 5 b. March 18, 1753, d. March 31, 1753, 
Samnel 5 b. July 5, 1757. 

David 4 b. Sept. 10, 1722, d-. Dec. 18, 1778, m. June 16, 1751, Phebe, 
dau. of Dea. John Huntting; they had ch. Phebe 5 bap. 1753 d. young, 
David 5 b. Nov. 7, 1754, Matthew 5 b. Oct. 22, 1756 rem. to Rensselaer- 
ville, N. Y. abt. 1800 and d. March 24, 1845, Phebe 5 b. Sept. 20, 1758, m. 
Sept, 19, 1780 Henry Pierson and d. Feb. 28, 1836, Bt-tsey 5 b- 1760. d. 
1785 unm., a son 6 b. 1762 d. young, Esther 5 b. 1765, m. David Hedges 
and died 1825, Jonathan 5 b. 1767, d, April 27, 1768, Jonathan 5 b. 1770. 

John 4 bap. July 29, 1711, d, April 20, 1784, m. April 1, 1731, and Had 
ch. John 5 bap. March 5, 1732, Mary 5 bap. April 14, 1734, m. Sopt, 17.")4, 
John Dayton, Jr., Hannah 5 bap. Sept. 5, 1736, Phebe 5 bap. June 24, 
1739, Jerusha 5 bap. April 18, 1742, Josiah 5 bap. March 24, 1745, a ch. 
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Timothy 5 b. Aug. 17, 1739, d. Feb. 15, 1813, m. Dec. 27, 1764 Esther 
Osborn, and rem. to Morris Co. N. J. abt. 1770; they had ch. Marj' 6 b. 
Dec. 12, 1765, Amy 6 b. Sept. 12, 1767, Esther G b. Sept. 30, 1769, Timo- 
thy 6 I). April 26. 1772. Elizabeth 6 b. Juuo 6, 1774, Jason 6 b. Sept. 25, 
1776, David 6 b. Nov. 25, 1778, Phebe 6 b. Oct. 15, 1781. 

Samuel 5 b. July 5, 1757, d. April 28, 1824, ra. 1st July 18, 1787 Mary 
Bukcr, 2d m. Mary Conkitug Dec. 25, 1794, who d. Sept. 10, 1840; they 
had ch. a child 6 b. Feb. 1736 d. young. Maria Mason 6 b. May 3. 1797 ra. 
David H. Miller, Puah Couklin (5 b. July 25, 1799, m. Eli Barnes, Thom- 
as Jefferson 6 b. D.c, 19, 1801 Samuel Lewis 6 b. Aug. 4, 1804, Hannah 6. 
b. Nov. 6, 1806, m. Dr. D. B. VanScoy, Phebe 6 b Feb. 9, 1811. 

David 5 b. Nov. 7, 1754, d. Jan. 8, 1799, m. Rachel Gardiner; they had 
ch. David 6 b. Sept. 13, 1782, Phebe G. 6 b. Aug. 7, 1784. ra. July 27, ls09 
Col. Samuel Miller, Richard 6 b. 1786, m. Betsey Hedges May 16, 1811, 
Henry L.- 6 b. June 9, 1790, d. Nov. 6, 1853 unm. 

Jonathan 5 b. 1770, d. Feb. 14, 1840. m. Hamutal Baker 1799 and had 
ch. David 6 b. April 16, 1800, d. Nov. 14, 1876 unm., Mary C. 6 b. Dec. 18, 
1803, m. Isaac VanScoy, John H. 6 b. April 24, 1806, d. Dee. 10, 1893 unm. 
Samuel G. 6 b. Feb. 3, 1808, Henry 6 b. Nov. 7, 1810, unm., George 6 b. 
May 18, 1813, Jei emiah 6 b. Oct. 17, 1815. 

John 5 b. March 5, 1732, d. 1761, m. Mary Dayton June 25, 1750, had 
ch. Jonathan 6 bap. July 13, 1761. Nathan 6 bap. July 13, 1761, Nancy 6 
bap. July 13, 1761. 

Josiah 5 bap. March 24, 1745, d. 1820, m. and had ch. Josiah 6 b. 1779, 
d. Jan. 12, 1863 unm., a dau. 6 b. 1791, d. Oct. 20, 1791, Phebe 6 b. 1792, 
m. 1st Ezra Miller, 2d Abraham D. Candy, Betsey 6 m. Isaac Hedges, 
d. s. p. 

Thomas Jeffekson 6 b. Dec. 19, 1801, d. July 21, 1883, at Amagan- 
sett, m. Harriet dau. of Isaac Barnes, Dec. 10, 1823, and had eh. Claris- 
sa M. 7 b. Nov. 3. 1824 unm., Samuel 7 b. Oct. 30, 1826, Isaac B. 7 b. Oct. 
26, 1828, Harriet M. 7 b. Jan. 3, 1837, m. June 16, 1857 Capt. George L. 
Hand. 

Samuel L. 6 b. Aui,'. 4, 1804, d. July 27, 1884, at Araasansett, m. 1st 
Nancy F. Baker May"20, 1828, who^^d. March 5, 1847, 2d Phebe S. Edwards 
Dec. 20, 1847, who d. Jan. 20, 1895 : they had ch. a son 7 b. April 3, 1829. 
d. young, Henry L. 7 b. Sept. 28, 1830, d. 1897, Charles J. 7 b. Sept. 28, 
1832, John N. 7 b. Oct. 18, 1835, George B. 7 b. May 11, 1838, d. July 12. 
1855, Nancy E. 7 b. April 10, 1840, d. Dec. 26, 1891, m. David C. Barnes, 
Mary T. 7 b. April 5, 1841, d. April 20, 1842, Beulah A. 7 b. July 24, 1842, 
a daughter 7 b. May 24, 1843, d. same day, Mary F. 7 b. April 2, 1846, 
d. Sept. 10, 1846, a dau. b. Feb. 27. 1847, d. same day, Edgar B. 7 b. Get. 
5, 1848, Dorliska J. 7 b. Feb. 8, 1850, d. March 1. 1852, Mary J. b. Feb. 
11, 1854, Phebe M. 7 b. Deo. 1856, d. Oct. 29, 1876. 

Samuel G. 6 b. Feb. 3, 1808, d. March 16, 1891, m. Charlotte VanScoy 
April 1, 1847 and had ch. Amanda H. 7 b. June 25, 1848, m. Nov. 11, 1875 
David E. Osborn, Samuel M. 7 b. Oct. 24, 1850, David G. 7 b. May 14, 
1853, John H. 7 b. Jan. 15, 1856. 

Gkorge 6 b. May 18, 1813, m. Mrs. Maryetto Pardons, (nee Conklin) 
Sept. 13, 1849, and they had ch. George H. 7 b. March 4, 1851 uum., 
Hannah M. 7 b. Sept. 25, 1852 unra. 

jEiiEMiAH 6 b. Oct. 17, 1815, d. May 23, 1867, m. Nov. 10, 1841, Mary 
M. dau. of Stephen Hedges, and they had ch. Phebe M. 7 b. Aug. 19, 
1842, d. Sept. 19, 1847, Mary E. 7 b. Feb. 3, 1849, m. Nov. 11, 1876 Elihu 
S. Miller, Carrie 7 b. Oct. 3, 1852, d. Jan. 19, 1882, Jeremiah H. b. Oct. 
18, 1854. 

Jonathan 6 bap. July 13, 1761, d. April 11, 1842, m. Bothia Bennett 



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who d. May 15, 1841, and they had ch. Jonathan B. 7 b. Nov. 23, 1788, 
Hannah 7 bap. April 29, 1791, m. Abraham Gardinor, Mary D. 7 bap. 
May 1796, m. David Carll, Miller Dayton 7 b. Jan. 29, 1797 rem. 

Samuel 7 U. Oct. 30, 182G, m. Nov. 26, 1856 Lvdia Lester, and has ch. 
Mary K. 8 b. Oct. 31, 1857, m. G. Clarence Topping Nov. 10, 1887, Fanny 
H. 8 b. Nov. 25, 1860, m. George W. Strong Oct. 28, 1882, Hattie 8 b. 
March 25, 1862, E. Matilda 8 b. June 28, 1873, d. Aug. 28, 1876. 

Isaac B. 7 b. Oct. 26, 1828, m. Aug. 26, 1884 Esther A. Edwards and 
had ch. Thomas J. b. Feb. 21, 1888, d. same day. 

Heney L. 7 b Sept. 28, 1830, d. 1897, m. Fanny Manwaring and had 
ch. Charles M. 8, John 8, Herbert 8, Emma 8. 

Chaeles J. 7 b. Sept. 28, 1832, m. Lydia A. Squires and had ch. Ger- 
trude 8 m. Henry L. Leek, Wesley 8 died, William 8 and George 8. 

Edgak B. 7 M. D. b. Oct. 5, 1848, and rem. to Bridge-Hampton, m. 
May 10. 1879 Mary A. Edwards and has ch. Samuel S. 8 h. Sept. 15, 1880, 
Arnold E. 8 b. Jan. 24, 1886. 

Sajiuet. M. 7 I). Oct. 24, 1850, m. Nov. 12. 1878 Isabella Stratton, and 
has ch. Charlotte S. 8 b. Sept. 28, 1879. 

Davii> G. 7 b. May 14, 1853, m. Nov. 9, 1882, Elizabeth E,. Osborn and 
has ch. Harold 0. 8 b. July 18, 1884, d. Jan. 26, 1887, Amy S. 8 b. April 
25, 1887, Florence M. 8 b. Aug. 24, 1890. 

John H. 7 b. Jan. 15, 1856, m, Dec. 9, 1886 Margaret D. dau. of Josiah 
Lester, and has ch. Josiah L. 8 b. Aug. 30, 1890. 

Jeeemiah H. 7 b. Oct. 18, 1854, m. Nov. 17, l'*J81 Phebe E dau. James 
M. Hedges, and has ch. Cairie 8 b. July 15, 1883, Herbert M. 8 b. Aug. 
13, 1887, d. April 1, 1888, James H. 8 b. Aug. 12, i:s89, Catherine M. 8 b. 
June 6, 1892, Mary Louise 8 b. Feb. 4, 1895. 

JONATHAN B. 7 b. Nov. 23, 1788, m. Esther Barnes Nov. 22, 1816 and 
had ch. Harriet L. 8 b. Feb. 11, 1821, m. Capt. Wm. Osborn and d. s. p. 
April 17. 1^42, Sarah M. 8 b. May 3, 1823, m. Wm. L. Osborn, Esther B. 8 
b. July 2, 1825, m. June 9, 1852 Dr. John C. Hedges, Sybil B. 8 b. Oct. 8, 
1827, ni. May 15, 1847 Nathaniel Dominy, Mary A. 8 b. April 11, 1830, d. 
Sept. 8, 183:4. 

^ ' William 1 b. in England abt. 1G20, d. March 1687, m. Sarah Alters, 
and Had ch. Thomas 2 b. abt. 1650, William 2, Benjamin 2 who rem. to 
Cape May, N. J. abt. 1702, Sarah 2 and Rachel 2. 
;/ Thomas 2 b. abt. 1650, d. Nov. 2, 1732, m. Mary Gardiner dau. of Jer- 
emiah Conkliu, and had eh. William 3, Kacliel 3 m. Thomas Dibble April 
2, 1700, Abia 3 m. Wm. Hedges March 2, 1702, Ezekiel 3 m. Abia Osborn 
July 14, 1714 and rem. to Cape May. N. J., Lewis 3, Jeremiah 3 b. 1687, 
Thomas 3 b. 1689, David 3 bap. 1699, d. S6pt. 12, 1722 unm. 

William 2 had ch. Aaron bap. June 16, 1700, Abigail 3 bap. April 26, 
1702, m. Thomas Chatfield, Jr., William 3 bap. Nov. 14, 1704, Benjamin 3 
bap. Feb. 16, 1707. Stephen 3 bap. Jan. 23, 1709, Jonathan 3 bap Fe*b. 18, 
1711, Ephraim 3 bap. Dec. 28, 1712, rem. to Cnmberland Co. N. J. Jacob 3 
)jap. April 7, 1715. 

Lewis 3 drowned while after a whale off East-Hampton, Feb. 24, 1719', 
m. Feb. 9, 1716 Hannah Pax-sons, and had ch. Jane 4 b. Oct. 7, 1716, d. 
1753, m. Dec. 18, 1738, John Chatfield, Levris 4 bap. Nov. 23, 1718, rem. 
to N. J. abt. 1740. 

Jeeemiah 3 b. 1687, d. Oct. 5. 1766, m. Abigail who d. May 10, 

1764, they had ch. Jeremiah 4 bap. Oct. 31, 1714, Lemuel 4 bap March 
31, 1717, d. Oct. 26, 1791, Job 4 bap. Jan. 1719, rem. to N. J. wlien vouug, 
Abraham 4 bap. Jan. 1719, Abigail 4 bap. Feb. 5, 1721, m. Dec. 20, 1744, 
Elias Howell, David 4 b. March 15, 1723, rem. to Duchess Co. N. Y. Han- 
nah 4 bap. Oct. 17, 1725, m. Nov. 1, 1749 Wm. Brant, Mary 4 bap. Oct. 



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17. 1725, (I. Jan. 25, 1746, Ezokiel 4 bap. Sept. 21, 1727. 
THO>rAs 3 b. 1().S9, il. March 8, 17«5, m. 1st Juno 1!), 1712 Mrs. Mercy 

B(>11, she (1. May 17, 1787, m. 2d Deborah Sopt. 7, 17:57, aud ha.l ch. 

Elisha 1 b. Jau. 12, 1713, Daniel 4 bap. June lU, 1715, Baniabas 4 bap. 
June 3, 171(!, in. Haunah Petty April 3!'t, 1740 and rem. abt. 1750 to Conn. 
Thomas 4 bap. Jan. lO, 1719. 

Jonathan 3 bap. Feb. 18, 1711, m. Mary Dayton June 25, 1740 and had 
ch. Jon 4, Jonathan 4, Nathan 4, Mary 4; we have no further record of 
these. 

AuKAHAM 4 bap. Jan. 1719, d. April 2, 1789, m. Dec. 19, 1745 Kebecca 
Stratton and had ch. Abraham 5 bap. Ja,n. 1748, Mary 5 bap. Jan. 12, 
I'^yO, Cornelius 5 bap. July 14, 1752, a ch. 5 bap. March 1759, Abigail 5, 
bap. Jan. 17G2, a son 5 bap. 1764. 

EzEKiEL 4 b. Sept. 24, 1727, d. April 15, 1819, m. Mrs. Amy Mulford 
and had ch. Mary 5 b. Dec. 25. 1756, m. Joseph Osborn 1774, Amy 5 b. 
July 7, 1759, m. Nathan Couklin. Jeremiah 5 b. Dec. 10, 1761, d. Aug. 23, 
1784, m. Elizabeth Jones April 13, 17bO d. s. p., Ezekiel 5 b. May 2^, 1764, 
rem. 1780 to Wayne Co. N. Y., Edward 5 1). Sept. 17, 17G7, Phebe 5 b. 
June 20, 1770, m. "Wm. Davis. Hannah 5 b. July 11, 1773, m. Jonathan 
Baker. 

El [SUA 4 b. Jan. 12, 1713, d. May 29, 1798, m. Dec. 1, 1735 Joanna Os- 
born, she d. Sept. 13, 1791, they had ch. Mary 5 bap. Nov. 28, 173(1, m. 
Eev. Samuel Euel, D. D., Mercy 5 bap. Dec. 10, 1738, William 5 bap. Apr. 
28, 1745, Elisha 5 bap. Oct. 27, 1749. 

Thomas 4 bap. Jan. 16, 1719, m. Sopt. 7, 1737 Mrs. Katherine Talmage, 
they had ch. Barnabas 5 bap. Sept. 16, 1750, Ananias 5 bap. Nov. 1752, 
Thomas 5 bap. Jau. -^9, 1758, Mercy 5 bap. Jan. 6, 1700, Ruth 5 bap. Jau. 
6, 1760. 

Abkaham 5 bap. Jan. 1748, d". Dec. 9, 1835, m. 1st 1770 Joanna Miller, 
she d. Sept. 12, JhOS, m. 2d Lydia Stebbins, 3d Mrs. Lydia Jones (nee 
Tiiliiigliast) ; all of his ch. were b. in E. H. by 1st w. ; he rem. to South- 
old abt. 1800; ch. Mary '<' b. Oct. 7. 1771, m. Juno 16, 1794 Abraham 
Huntting, she d. June 11, 184J, Ilaiinah 6 b. 1774, m. Henry Osborn 1790, 
Estlier 6 b. 1776, m. 1796 Daniel Osborn, Rebecca 6 b. 1778, m. 1st Henry 
Chattield, 2d 1812 Samuel Conklin, Abraham 6 b. 1781, d. at Southold 
Dec. 29, 1864, Fr&uees 6 b. 1783, m. 1804 John D. Gardiner, Abby 6 m. 
Eobtus Tuthill, Betsey 6 b. 1786 m. Nathaniel Rackett, Jeremiah 6 b. 
1792, d. Jan. 14, 1855, Phebe 6 b. 1794, m. Martin Prince. 

EDWAiiD 5 b. Sept. 17, 1767, d. April 5, 1821, m. Jan 18, 1794 Fanny 
Rysam, aud they had ch. William J. R. 6 b. Oct. 18, 1794, Ezekiel 6 b. 
Jau. 9, 1796, d. Sept. 15, 1805, Jeremiah 6 b. Aug. 21, 1797, Ursula P. 6 b. 
March 12. 1802, m. Jujy 10, 1820 Capt. Geo. R. Howell, Ezekiel 6 b. Sei)t. 
13, 1805, Nancy R. 6 b. April 15, 1807, d. June 3, 1856, m. Jan. 1, 1829, 
Henry H. Huntting, Eliza G. 6 b. Aug. 9, 1814, p. July 14, 1886, m. April 
3, 1841 L. Deerinu. 

WiLiiiAM 5 bap. April 28, 1745, d. Dec, 7, 1813, m. Lucretia Coukling, 
who d. March 27, 1814, they had ch. William Gb. 1776, Betsey 6 b. Oct. 
10, 1779, d. Sept, 25, 1849 num., Lucretia 6 b. 1782, Thomas 6 bap. A.ug. 
1784, d. July 26, 1829 unm., Samuel 6 bap. 1787, rem. to Nine Partners, 
now Millbrook, Duchess Co. N. Y. 

EijISUA 5 bap. Oct. 27, 1749, d. Aug. 14, 1828, m. Mrs. Damaris Sand- 
ford (uee Howell) and they had ch. Phebe 6 b. Oct. 1, 1780, Jerusha 6 b. 
June 3, 1782, Sylvanus «. 6 b. Aug. 20, 1784, d. Nov. 27. 1873, m. May 3, 
1818 Fanny dan. Zebulon Jessup and rem. to Montrose, Pa., Mary 6 b. 
May 16, 1786, Elisha 6 b. Jan. 18, 1798, d. Aug. 4, 1867, rem. to Orient, 
N. Y. m. 1805, Fanny 6 b. Fob, 3, 1801. 



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William J. E. 6 b. Oct. 18, 1794, d. at Sag-Harbor, m. Aug. 21, 1827 
HaiTiet dau. of Henry Havens and they had eh. Fanny R. 7 b. May 1828 
m. 1st 1846 Dr. C. S. Stillwell, m. 2d 11S85 Kev. J. J. Harrison, Hannah 7 
in. Dr. S. B. Nicol, Wm. Rysam 7 m. Laura Allen, he d. at Anderson- 
ville (S. C.) prison, while in the service of his country. 

Jekemiah 6 b. Aug 21, 1797, d. at Sag-Harbor Jan. 22, 1880, m. 1st Den. 

9, 1810 Marv Lee, who d. Nov. 29, 1858, m. 2d and had ch. George 

L. 7, b. June 7, 1818, killed at sea by a whale Feb. 6, 1842, Juliette G. 7 
b. Dee. G, U19, m. 1842 Robert F. Osboru, Caroline L. 7 b. May 28, 1822. 
d. March 17, 1870, m. Sept. 5, 1844 E. Prentice, Chauncey W. 7 b. April 
28, 1825, rem. west when young, Edward C. 7 b. Nov. 23, 1827, d. Sept. 
18, 1832, Gertrude D. 7 b. Feb. 17, 1833, d. Oct. 27, 1854, Ursula P.. 7 b. 
May 19, 1835, d. Oct. 15, 1839, Mary L. 7 b. June 10, 1838. d. Oct. 24, 1839. 

EzEKiEL 6 b. Sept. 13. JS05, d. Jan. 31, 1850, m. Dec. 27, 1832 Julia 
Prentice, and they had ch. Araos Prentice 7 b. April 5, 1834, d. May 1891, 
Julia Anna 7 b. July 1, 1839, Lucinda C. 7 b. Sept. 28, 1841, d. Jan. 21, 
1851, Eliza Gracie 7 b. Aug. 15, 1844, d. Aug. 21, 1894. 

William 6 b. 1776, d. Sent. 8, 1847, m. Nov, 6, 1803 Polly Parsons, she 
d. Nov. 24, 1842, they had"ch. Jeremiah Jones 7, James P. 7 b. 1810, d. 
Feb. 5, 1883, m. Nov, 31, 1833 Phebe B. dau. of Jeremiah Dayton, she d. 
Sept. 17, 1895, no ch ; William 7 b. Dec. 1812, d. July 7, 1879, m. Philena 
dau. of Sylvanus Jones, she d. Nov. 17, 1877, both d. s. p. 

Jeremiah J. 7 d. July 25, 1869, m. 1st Dec. 15, 1835 Betsey Isaacs, she 
d. Aug. o, 1841, m. 2d Sept. 2, 1843 Abigail Glover, she d. Nov. 6, 1847, 
m. 3d Nov. 9, 1848 Sarah B. Stratton and had ch. Elisha 8 b. Dee. 16, 
1836, m. Mrs. Williams, no ch. ; Catherine 8 b. April 22, 1838, m. James 
M. Hedges, a ch. 8 b. 1840, d. young, Charles J. 8 b. June 22, 1841, m. 
Jan. 14, 1868 Anna E. Lines, no ch., Abby G. 8 b. Aug. 17, 1847. 

Note. — Barnabas 4 born June 3, 1716, son of Thomas 3, settled at 
Branford, Ct., was a member of the General Assembly of Conn. 1762, 
and a deacon of the North Branford church ; and had son Barna- 
bas 5 who had son Hervey 5, graduate of Yale in 1794, who had son 
James Hervey 7,Bof New Haven, Ct., who had son Hervey 8, who had 
sons William Remsen 9 b. July 4, 1857 and Dexter Walker Ironside9 b. 
Dec. 26, 1865. Wm. Remsen 9, Episcopal clergyman in New Haven, 
Conn., compiled and published the Mulford Genealogy, including fully 
the Branford branch, in 1880. In 1893 Mrs. A. B. Kitchell, of N. Y. city, 
published a genealogy of the Mulford family containing more fully 
notices of the New Jersey branch of the family, descended from Chris- 
topher 5 and his brother Timothy 5, sons of Timothy 4, son of Mat- 
thew 3, son of Samuel 2, sou of John 1. Elisha Mulford, atuhor of 
"the Nation" and "the Republic of God," was a descendant of Thomas 
Mulford 3, sou of Thomas 2, son of William 1. H. p. H. 

THE MURDOCK FAMILY. 

CONTEIBUTED BY TEUITIS D. HUNTTING. ESQ. 

Among the early settlers of East-Hampton, there were some families 
who remained there only a short time. One of these was the Murdock 
family. Peter Murdock 1 came to this place while travelling through 
the length of the Island as a peddler, carrying his pack -of merchandise 
on his back. He was the son of a well-to-do wool-comber of Limerick, 
Ireland, who had lost all his property during the war of 1690-1. Peter 1 
came to this country to carve out a living for himself in 1698. During 
his periodical visits to East-Hampton he became acquainted with Mary 
Fithian, secretly courted her contrary to her father's wishes, and final- 



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Iv married her This was in 1705. A.fter his marriage he opened a 
store in E H., his wife tending it while he resumed his peddlers pack, 
He prospered in business and sent to Ireland for his three sisters to 
conie and live with him ; one of them, Dorcas, married John Conklin, 
of East-Hampton. ^ , , , u^a 

Petek 1 had but one child, a son named John 2 who, when he reached 
manhood, rem. to West Saybrook, Conn. 

John 2 b. 1706 at E. H. d. Jan. 21, 1778, at Westbrook. Conn., m. 1st 
Phebe Sill, 2d Frances Conklin April 11, 1732 and d. 1799. They had ch. 
Peter 3 b. Jan. 21, 1733, d. 1755 unm., Mary 3 b. Nov. 21, 1731, m. Nath- 
aniel Huntting 1751, John 3 b. Nov. 19, ITSC, d. 1764 unm Phebe 3 b. 

Nov 13 1738 m. Eev. Devotion, William 3 b. April 31, 174r., Abi- 

•'ailS b' March 21, 1742, Enoch 3 b. Nov. 22, 1743, Jonathan 3 b. April 7, 
1745, Anna 3 b. Feb. 14, 1747, Miriam 3 b. Aug. 25, 1748, Abraham 3 b. 
May 21, 1751, Frances 3 b. Aug. 31, 1753, James 3 b. Feb. 18, 1755. 

THE OSBOKN FAMILY. 
Thomas Osborn, Sr., was father of Thomas, Jr. 2, John 2 and Ben- 
iamin 2 and conveyed to the latter in 1687 all his lands in East-Hamp- 
ton see T E. Vol. I, pp. 84, 300, 406. From Savage's Gen. Dictionary 
and otherwise we know that this Thomas 1 had in New Haven a son 
Jeremiah and other children, and a brother Eichard, the tanner, there. 
The tradition that he returned to New Haven and died there, is con- 
sistent with the deed and all the known facts. The Thomas 2 dying m 
1712 03 90, was sou of Thomas 1. The Joseph, Jr. 3 was son of Thomas 
2 dying in 1743, 8s 83, and by will proved Sept. 9, 1746, devised to his son 
Joseph 4 the old Deacon Osborn homestead, to his son Jeremiah 4 the 
house on the corner bought of Capt. Thos. SVheeler, and to his son 
Thomas 4 the Pudding Hill lot. Four generations of the family are 
traced and located on three homesteads, at so late a date and so clear- 
ly as to leave little if any doubt so far. The same will names his 
brother Daniel 3. ,, ^ , , , 

We find at an early day in East-Hampton four other Osborns, not of 
this stock, to be traced and located. Eecompence in 1665, Bezaleel, 
Joseph and Jonathan, (see T. E. Vol. I, p. 241, Vol II, pp. 183, 255 and 
256 Savage names William Osborn 1 in Salem 1630, m Dorchester 163J, 
and there had son Eecompence 2 b. May 26, 1644, H. C. 1661, at Brain- 
tree had Hannah Aug. 24 1646, Bezaleel May 8. 1650, and alter that at 
Boston had Joseph 2 b. April 6, 1652 and Jonathan b. Nov 16, 16o6. He 
was a merchant and died in mid life. Inventory Aprir29 1662, oyer 
XI 000. His wid. m. John Mulford, of Southampton, L. I. dec. (^outh- 
am'ptcn is a mistake for East-Hampton.) Eecompence grad. of H. O. 
After graduation taught school in New Haven and thence went to J^ast- 
Hampton, and after 1665 disappears, probably dying there soon after, 
at a date not fixed by the college catalogue, but probably before beza- 
leel who died about 1686, and whose unucupativewiU proved inbunolJt 
Co Feb. 10, 1686 names his wife Elizabeth, the two sous of his brother- 
in-law Arthur Howell, and brothers Joseph and Jonathan. The will is 
proved to have been made in the house of Joseph the testator s broth- 
er The Town Eecords. Vol. II, p. 256, 257 show that in 1690 Jonathan 
then of Cape May, N. J. and Joseph, sons of William of Boston, owned 
half a house formerly their father's, and by him given to their mother. 
The death of Eecompence and Bezaleel and removal of Jonathan to 
Cape May, before 1690, still left Joseph, son of the rich merchant Wil- 
liam, in East-Hampton, whose descendants, if any, are not traced. 



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This Joseph probably was the Joseph, Sen. who died in 1741, ee abt. 90. 
The statement that the lot of Bezaleel descended in the Osborn family 
in the line of the late Sylvanus M. dec'd, is probably an error. The 
Thomas 2 d. in 1712 left son Joseph 3 d. in 1743, and son Daniel 3 d. in 
1713, who left son Dea. Daniel 4 who d. in 1757, both located on the Os- 
born homestead where now resides David E. son of Sylvanus M. The 
original unproved will of Daniel 3, and a copy of the Avill and probate 
of Daniel 4, are now in possession of said David E. In the former Jos- 
eph Osborn, brother of the testator, is named executor. In the latter 
"Thos. Osborn, dec'd" is named as grandfather of the testator, and his 
cousin Joseph Osborn as an executor, demonstrating the descent of 
both families from Thomas 2. A deed of Daniel and Jonathan, sons of 
Daniel, to Jeremiah Osborn, in 1758, confirms this 

There was a Capt. Daniel Osborn, of Southold, whose will dated Oct. 
4th. 1771, proved April 29, 1782, names sons Daniel and Wines, and land 
at Daniel's Hole and Major Wickham's land, as if in East-Hampton, 
and who I think was son of Daniel 4, and is the Daniel named in the 
will as his son, with Jonathan, and while the latter remained the form- 
er Daniel 5 I think removed to Southold. His son Daniel 6 probably 
was the Assemblyman named in 1787-8, and he was father of the late 
lawyer Hull Osborn 7 and Dr. Thomas Osborn 7 of Kiverhead, and thus 
the Southold and East-Hampton Osborns have the same lineage, as 
stated by so competent authority as the late J. Wickham Case. See 
note, Southold Town Eecords, Vol. II, p. 536. The Charles Osborn, late 
of Bellport, L. I. dec'd, descended from the same Thomas 2 of East- 
Hampton. 

The writer of the Chronicles of East-Hampton, published in 1838-1841 
in The Corrector, at Sag-Harbor, and afterwards in book form in 1870, 
speaking of the earliest memorials of the dead, described four red cedar 
posts, two connected by a rail and two with the rail missing. He men- 
tions the fragrance of the wood and the fact that "four years since a 
person then aged ninety-four, who was born ar.d always lived in the 
village, described them as bearing at his earliest -recollection the same 
worn appearance that they then did." No inscription was visible on 
those connected by the rail. On the others the Avriter states '-the ini- 
tials B. 0. can be indistinctly traced." I well remember these posts 
in the burying ground at the "south end." They were set at the usual 
distance of head and foot stones over graves, and probably antedated 
them as memorials. The old person who I suppose died in 1830 ro 98, 
was Dea. Eecompence Sherrid, and his memory thereof must have 
gone back to 1742. The initials B. O. are those of Bezaleel Osborn who 
died in 1686, and with slight change are those of Eecompence Osborn, 
the Harvard graduate, dying about 1670, and not unlikely in fact were 
marks for the grave of one of them. 

In Munsell's History of Suffolk Co. the Osborn genealogy is errone- 
ously traced from Eobert and Elizabeth, of Maidstone, Kent, Eng., to 
Thomas 2 who d. a3 90 in 1712, to Daniel 3 d. Jan. 6, 1713 te 48 yrs., Dan- 
iel 4 d. May 18, 1757, Jonathan 5 d. Nov. 1, 1781, Joseph 6 b. 1754, d. 
1844, Joseph 7 b. 1789, d. 1872, Sylvanus M. 8. The partial genealogy 
of this family, by Judge Thomas A. Osborn, late of Mayville, Chautau- 
qua Co., N. Y., Co. Judge in 1843, Member of Assembly in 1868, contains 
the same mistake. Thomas 1 Sen. father of Thomas 2 Jr. who died in 
1712, may have been son of that Eobert and Elizabeth, but not of Thom- 
as 2. The Town Eecords prove Thomas 2 son of Thomas 1. 

Deacon Abraham Osborn 6, son of Lewis 5, son of Joseph 4, son of 
Joseph 3, sou of Thomas 2, sou of Thomas 1, was a man of devout soul 



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Sood memory and good sense, versed in treasured traditionary lore. 
"And many names he would repeat, 
Whose pulses long have ceased to beat." 
He said that Thomas 1, Thomas 2, Joseph 3 and his three sons Joseph 4, 
Jeremiah i and Thomas 4, L(!\vis 5 and Abraham 6, all tanners, worked 
for six generations at that trade on the hill where he resided, now the 
residence of his grand-sons William A, and Burnet M. Osborn. For 
generations the family and descendants of Daniel 3 and his son Deacon 
Daniel i so wrought. Judge Thomas A. ralates that the family have a 
tradition that they are of Norman origin, and came with William the 
Conqueror. He had an account of the family Coat of Arms which, writ- 
ing from memory, is not given. Believing that what we do and not 
vidiat our ancestors have done, will be our true measure, I have made 
no inquiry in that direction. Dea. Joseph 4, grandfather of Dea. Abra- 
ham (j, was a man of strong convictions, and in the Revolution a reso- 
lute patriot. During the Revolutionary war, on his way to church, he 
was ordered by a British officer to appear forthwith, with his team 
and cart, at an appointed place to do service for the British army. The 
Deacon inquired by what authority tbe officer commanded him and was 
answered "by the authority of the King." "What King do you serve?" 
asked the Deacon. The answer was "King George the Third." The 
Deacon replied "my King is greater than your King. I serve King 
Jesus. He commands me to go to meeting and I shall go." With this 
the old hero marched on to the church. To such a man titles and coats 
of arms are baubles. Having known the strong personality and power 
of Dea. Abraham, his grandson, I can better conceive the master man- 
ner of his grandsire. i^* 

The line runs thus : Thomas 1 the emigrant, Thomas 2 b. l}22, a. at 
E. Hampton 1712, Joseph 3 b. abt. 1671, d. Oct. 1743. 
>C Joseph 3 had w. Mary Hedges, m. Dec. 26, 1704-5 and ch. Jose ph 4, 
Jeremiah 4 and Thomas 4 b. abt 1699, d. Nov. 1753 aj 54. 
Joseph 4 had ch. Joseph 5, Lewis 5 and Mary. 

Thomas 4 b. abt. 1699, d. Nov. 1753, had ch. Deborah o b. Feb. 14, 1742, 
Thomas 5 b. Feb. 24, 1744, James 5 b. April 14, 1746, Mary 5 b. April 18, 
1749, Elizabeth 5 b. July 15th, 1751, Cornelius 5 b. Jan. 19, 1754. 
Thoaias 5 b. Feb. 24, 1744, d. JuneS, 1788, sb 44 yrs. 2 mos. 29 das. had -n . 

and ch. Phebe 6 b. April 14, 1768, Thomas 6 b. Jan 29, 1770, |Abra- 

ham 6 b. Feb. 15, 1772, Jacob Hedges 6 b. March 26, 1774, Thomas 6 b. 
April 21, 1777, Conkling 6 b. June 4, 1779, Lewis 6 b. Dec. 18, 1782, Jane 
6 b. March 8, 1786. , „, ,^^„ , , 

Thomas 6 b. April 21, 1777, had w. Jane b. April 21, luT, d. at 

Fredouia April 16, 1844, and ch. Thomas Albert 7 b. July 1, 1800, Erwin 
Filer 7 b. April 29, 1802, Gustavus Adolphus 7 b. April 24, 1804, George 
Clinton 7 b. April J 2, 1806. Viraldo Emmett 7 b. April 16, 1808, Emma 
Corbit Filer 7 born July 28, 1809, Esther Jane 7 b. Dec. 28, 1811, Puella 
Melvina 7 b. June 6. 1820. ^ ^ ,, 

Thomas Albekt 7 b. July 1. 1800 (Judge) had two wives, 1st Mary 
Walter who d. Dec. 4, 1837, and 2d Eliza Jeannette who d. Aug. 29, 18o6 
and ch. (4ustavus Adoluhus 8 b. May 25, 1829, d. May 11, 1849, Mary 
Walter 8 b. Dec. 30. 1833," d May 5, 1856, interments at Mayville.Thomas 
\ 7 had I think 3d w. and ch. Thomas Osborn 6 d. at the house of Jo- 
seph Osborn in Brooklyn, N. Y. Sept. 13, 1856, buried at Fredonia. Jo- 
seph Osborn 5, eldest son of Joseph 4, d. at the house of his son in 
Brooklyn, Dec. 28, 1848. ^, . ., „,, 

EuwiN 7 had ch. Charles Filer 8 b. April 5, 1826, Puella 8 b. April 30, 
]s:!(i, Thomas A. 8 b. Jan. 17, 1833. 



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GUSTAVUS 7 had ch. Henry Clay 8 b. June 28; 1834, Elizabeth 8 b. Oct. 
28, 1835, Thomas 8 b. Feb.. 11, 1837, Jane 8 b. Dec. 29, 1838, Emma 8 b. 
July 10, 1842 (adopted by T. A. Osborn) Elizabeth 8 b. Feb. 17, 1844, John 
Eason 8 b. Nov. 7, 1846, Gustavus Albert 8 b. Oct. 28, 1852. 

Geokge 'C. 7 has ch. Elizabeth 8 b. Oct. 26, 1829, Mary Priscilla 8 b. 
Dec. 14, 1831 ; Elizabeth 8 m. John P. Cobb and has ch. John 9 b. 1857, 
Mary P. 8 w. Calvin Smith and has a dau. 

Phebe Osbokn 6 b. April 14, 1768, m. John Miller and they had ch. 
John and Daniel, who rem. to Canada and then to Ohio, and later to 
Fulton, Oswego Co., N. Y. and had ch. 

Abraham 6 had w. Phebe, d. of Steven Hedges, of Sagg, and ch. 
Abraham Thomas 7, William 7, Edmund 7, who all resided on Pudding 
Hill and d. s. p., and a dau. 7 who m. and had ch. 

Jacob Hedges 6 m. Charity Hedges and had ch. Jane 7, Phebe 7 and 
Charity 7. 

CoNKLiNG 6 m. Abigail Hedges and had ch. Philander 7 & Emeline 7. 
Thomas 6 and Jane 6 d. s. p. and Lewis d. unm. 

CoKNEiiius 5 son of Thomas 4 b. Jan. 19, 1754, d. Sept. 24, 1810 es 57, 
had w. Hannah Hedges and ch. Stephen 6, Cornelius 6, Mary 6, Phebe 6, 
Joseph 6 and an infant. Cornelius 5 resided at Jericho ; his son Steph- 
en 6 b. abt. 1785, abt. 1808 rem. to Lansingburgh, N. Y. and had w. 
Martha Barton and ch. Martha 7, Cornelius 7, Rufus 7, Hannah 7, 
Mary 7. Julia 7. Mary 6, Joseph 6 and an infant all d. s. p. Cornelius 
6 d. in Monroe Co. N. Y. leaving ch. Eobert 7, Eeuben 7, and others. 
Phebe 6 m. Nathan C. Barnes ; she was b. Jan. 20th, 1800 and d. April 7, 
1848, 8Si 48, and had ch. Mary 0. 7 and Joseph Henry 7. 
' Joseph 4, oldest son of Joseph 3, had ch. JosephJ, Mulford 5 who d. 
s. p. Charleses, Temperance 5, Hedges 5 who m. in'^rookhaven, Mary 5 
who m. W. Hedges iintniad C"h. Joseph 6, Lucy 6, and other ch. Phe- 
be 5 who m. Zephaniah Filer, of Troy, N. Y. and had ch. Charles 6, Em- 
ma Corbett 6, Heni-y Pierson G, Elizabeth Albeirson 6 and Zephaniah 6. 
Hannah 5 who m. Joseph Hedges ; Joseph 5 who had ch. Joseph 6, Ma- 
ry 6 and Elizabeth G ; Joseph 6 the eldest brother lived in Brooklyn, N. 
Y. and had ch. Isabel 7 and Benjamin 7: Charles 5 had w. Charlotte 
and ch. Charles 6, Thomas 6 and others. 

Jeeemiah 4, son of Joseph 3, d, Aug. 24, 1775, se abt. 68, had w. Mercy 
Baker, m. Nov. 11, 1735. and ch. Mercy 5 bap. July 18, 1736-7, Mary 5 
bap. March 11, 1738-9, Elizabeth 5 bap. Feb. 22, 1740, Esther 5 bap. April 
25, 1742, Elizabeth 5 bap. Aug. 5, 1744, Puah 5 b. Dec. 21, 1746, Jere- 
miah 5 bap. April 1, 1749-50, Mehetable 5 bap. July 1, 1752. 

Jeeemiah 5 b. March 31, 1750, d. May 25, 1821, ro 71, had w. Mary 
Parsons, b. Oct. 2, 1755, d. Jan. 31, 1797, dau. of John Parsons (who d. 
Nov. 5, 1775) and they had ch. Jeremiah 6 b. Sept. 17, 1776. John P. 6 b. 
July 28, 1779, Phebe P. 6 b. Oct. 15, 1781, Mary 6 b. Aug. 26, 17S4, who d. 
unm. in Troy, N. Y. Feb. 26, 1^04, Esther 6 b. April 11, 1787, Henry P. 6 
b. Jan. 10, 1790, Samuel 6 b. March 5, 1795. The wife of John Parsons 
was. Phebe Miller, dau. of Josiah Miller, and they were m. May 15, 1740, 
all their ch. d. s. p. except Mary who m. Capt. Jeremiah 5, whose ch. 
inherited the estate of their grand-father. John P. 6 and Henry P. 6 
were named "Parsons." Phebe P. 6 m.- Zephaniah Hedges and had ch. 
Esther 6 m. Col. David Hedges and they had son John C. Hedges, M.D. 
who d. s. p. 

Jeeemiah 6 son of Capt. Jeremiah 5 was grad. of Yale and rem. to 

Troy, Bensselaer Co. N. Y. and was Surrogate of that Co. ; had w. 

Peck and sou Marcus Brutus 7 of Illinois, who lately d. a3 90 years, and 
had w. and ch. Sarah 8 who m. Corker, and has ch ; Lucy 8 who m. 



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Curtis and has ch ; Chas. M. 8 who resides in Chicago, 111., lawyer. 

and has ch. 

John P. 6 had w. Sarah dau. of Capt. Thos. Wicliham and ch. Edward 
7 shot in hunting on Montauk in 1843 and soon after d. s. p., Isaac W. 7 
who had w. and ch. Isaac 8 who d. young unm, and Alice 8 of Brooklyn, 
N. Y., Mary 7 who d. unm. Kobert F. 7 had w. Juliett dau. of Jeremiah 

Mulford, and ch. Gertrude 8 b. in 1845. m. Jewett and had 2 cb. m. 

'2(1 Dewey, in Chicago, 111., and Edward 8 who m. Carrie Buckley, d. 

of Abel C. Buckley and resides in Brooklyn, N. Y. and have ch. Sarah 

A. E. 7 resides in Sag-Harbor, N. Y. 

Hekky p. 6 "Esquire Harry," of Moriches, N. Y. m. Susan Topping, 
d. of Stephen S. Topping, of B. Hampton, Nov. 4, 1812, and had ch. Car- 
oline D. 7 b. Nov. 4, 1814, m. Wm. Howell and they had ch. Egbert 7 b. 
March 22, 1817 d. s. p. Aug. 6, lfS35, Angeline 7 b. Aug. 12, 1819. m. Josh- 
ua Terry and they had ch. Susan 7 b. April 17, 1823, m. Jacob Miller and 

they had ch. Henry T. 7 b. June 9, 182G, m. Topping dau. of Capt. 

Edward Topping, and they have ch. George 7 b. Oct. 27, 1831, m. 

and they have ch. Cornelia 7 b. 1835, m. Wm. Fordham, s. of Nicholas, 
and they had ch. 

Samuel 6, s. of Jeremiah 5. b. March 5, 1795, d. June 1842, had w. Mary 
Ann dau. of Theophilus Smith, of Moriches, L. I. b. Dec. 10, 1799, d. 
Dec. 16, 1873, and they had ch. Glorianua 7 b. June 5. 1820, d. Feb. 1, 
1891 ; Mary Elizabeth 7 b. Oct. 8, 1825, d. May 11, 1865 ; Emmett 7 b. 
April 20, 1829, d. at sea uum. abt. 1856 ; Edward 7 b. Sept. 8, 1836; Glo- 
riana 7 m. Henry P. Hedges and they had ch. Samuel O. 8, Edwin 8 and 
William 8 ; Mary Elizabeth 7 m. John L. Gardiner, M. D. and'd. s. p. ; 
Emmett 7 went to sea and| after 1854 was not heard from ; Edward 7 M. 
D. m. Phebe Hendricksou and resides on the corner of Main street and 
Wood's Lane, purchased in 1724 of Thos. Wheeler by his ancestor Jos- 
eph Osborn 3. 

Joseph 4 d. Nov. 21, 1786, ss 82, had s. Lewis 5 d. Sept. 14. 1783. ee 36 ; 
Lewis 5 m. Jerusha Gardiner who d. Aug. 20, 1844, se 93, they had ch. 
Abraham 6 b. Jan. 1, 1776, d. Sept. 16, 1855, 03 79 ; Septimus 6 d. Feb. 

27, 1852, 88 73 ; Esther 6 d. June 24, 1863, iB 82 yrs. 6 mos. unm. 
Abkaham 6 Dea. b. Jan. 1, 1776, m. Ist Martha, d. of Daniel Hedges 

of Sagg, who d. Feb. 5, 180S, as 28, and had two ch. who d. infants, and 
d. Jerusha G. 7 w. of J. P. Cramer, of Schuylerville, N. Y. b. April 24, 
1802, d. s. p. Sept. 29, 1875; had 2d w. Mercy d. of Wm. Huuttiug. b. 
Feb. 26, 1781, d. Aug. 23, 1843, ee 63. they had ch. Mary Green 7. w. of 
Capt. Wm. Hedges (she d. Dec. 11, 1882, se 71 years, 7 mos. and leaving 
s. Wm. 8) Wm. Lewis Huntting 7 b. Jan. 31, 1817, d. Oct. 2, 1881. 

Wm. Lewis Huntting 7 had w. Sarah b. May 3, 1823, d. of Jonathan 

B. Mulford, and they had ch. Wm. Abraham 8 b. Jan 5, 1850 and Bur- 
net Mulford » b. June 12, 1856. 

BuKNET AluLFOKD 8 has w. Annie d. of Wm. H. Phillips, of Shelter 
Island, m. Jan. 3, 1889. 
Septimus 6 m.- Phebe d. of Samuel Parsons, Oct. 2, 1805, who d. Feb. 

28, 1828, they had ch. Lewis 7 b. Dec. 17. 1807, d. July 23, 1870, Charles 7 
b. July 9, 1810, d. June 19, 1890, John Gardiner 7 b. May 4, 1813, d. June 
27, 1.S49, Betsey Conklin 7 b. Sept. 10, 1815, d. May 7, 1860, Samuel P. 7 
b. June 10, 1819, d. June- 10, 1895, David C. 7 b. Aug. 23, 1821, d. June 15, 
1845'; except Charles 7 all these d. s. p. 

Chakl.es 7 had w. Harriet Eliza Cook of B. Hampton who d. Dec. 31, 
1892 ro 78 years, 21 days, tht-y had ch. Phebe Parsons 8 b. Feb. 5, 1838. 
d. May 11, 1890, m. Jehial Keiiyou Parsons Oct. 15, 1862, they had ch. 
Samuel Hedges Parsons 9 b. March 4, 1866, Sally Mulford Parsons 9 b. 



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June 11, 1873 and two ch. d. infants; Charles Wesley 8 b. Aug. 25, 1839; 
Sarah Gelston 8 b. May 6, 1841, m. Jonathai; F. Gould Oct. 25, 18G6 and 
they have ch. Theodore 9 b. March 3. 18G8, d. May 2, 1869, John Aster 9 
b. Nov. 29, 1870, Charles Osborne 9 b. Jan. 2b, 1873, Hewett Talmage 9 
b. Nov. 22, 1874, d. Aug. 23. 1875; Edward Monroe 8 b. Oct. 5, 1842, Ma- 
ry Jane 8 b. April 12, 1845, d. July 26, 1858, Eloise Cook 8 b. June 28, 
1)S47, Joseph Septimus 8 b. Feb. 11, 1852 ; Charles W. 8 m. Mary Jane 
Meserole Oct. 12, 1871, she was b. 1839, d. 1890, they had son 9 d. an in- 
fant and dau. Mabel Lozier 9 b. May 28, d. Oct. 18, 1880. 

Joseph S. 8 b. Feb. 11, 1852, m. Florence Niyl.tingale Worthington 
Jan. 15, 1885, they have ch. Chailes Joseph 9 b. Aug. 13, 1886, Nelson 
Cook 9 b. March 4, 1888, Mary Gelston 9 b. Oct. 17, 1889. 

THE DOWN STEEET OSBOENS. 

For convenience and from their location I designate the descendants 
of Daniel 3, son of Thomas 2, as the "down street' Osbornes. 

Daniel a b. abt. 166G, d. Jan. 6, 1713, ss 48, had w. Elizabeth Hedges 
and ch. Daniel 4, Thomas 4, Abigail 4, Eebecca 4, Mary 4. 

Daniel 4 d. May 18, 1757, had w. Elizabeth Austin, m. June 10, 1713, 
and ch. Elizabeth 5, Daniel 5, Eebecca 5, Jonathan 5, Hannah 5, JDavid 
5, Elizabeth 5 b. April 1, 1714, w. Dea. Isaac VanHcoy abt. 1783, Daniel 5, 
b. May 11, 1720, d. Dec. 4, 1792, as 72, Eebecca 5 b. in 1722, d. Jan. 23, 
1804, Si 82, Jonathan 5 b. April 14, 1725, d. Jan. 17b2, as 57, Hannah 5 b. 
July 26, 1727, David 5 b. Aug. 4, 1730. 

Jonathan 5 b. April 14, 1725, had w. Elizabeth Dibbh; b. Nov. 28, 1729, 
d. July 1824 se 95, m. June 10, 1753, had ch. Joseph 6, Jonathan 6. Henry 
C, Samuel 6, Daniel 6. 

Joseph 6 b. Aug. 11, 1754, d. Aug. 11, 1844, ai 90, had w. Mary dau. of 
Capt. Ezekiel Muiford b. Dec. 25, 1756, d. Dec. 25, 1830, se 74. They had 
ch, Muiford 7 who d. young unm., Sylvanus 7, David 7, Joseph 7, Mui- 
ford 7. 

Jonathan 6 b. Jan. 4, 1760, d. Jan. 31, 1846, so 86, had w. Hetty dau. 
of Dea. Isaac VanScoy and they had ch. Polly 7, Harvey 7, John 7, 
Mulfurd 7, Abraham 7, Betsey 7 and Isaac 7, the last two twins. 

Henky 6 b. 1762, d. Dec. 11, 1836, le 74, had w. Hannah dau. of Deac. 
Abraham Muiford, and they had ch. Betsey 7. Fanny 7, Henry 7, Phe- 
be 7, Hannah 7, David 7, Mary 7, William 7, Harriet 7. 

Samuel 6 b. March 1767, d. 1859, ae 92, had w. Fanny Wilcot of Colum- 
bia Co. N. Y. and Ihey had ch. Martin 7, Fanny 7, Samuel 7 and Har- 
riet 7, who d. at Austerlitz, Columbia Co. N. Y. 

Daniel 6 Deac. had w. Esther Muiford, dau. of Dea. Abraham Mui- 
ford b. Oct. 1775, d. April 13, lS4b, ffi 72, they had ch. Samuel 7 b. Jan. 
1811, d. Oct. 1811, Jeremiah 7 b. March 10, 1803 d. s. p. Feb. 25th, 1877 sa 
73, Daniel 7 b. Aug. 1, 1797, d. Aug. 2, 1859, as 62, had w. Mrs. Frances 
wid. of William Hedges and they had dau. Jeaunett ■ 8 who m. Jeremiah 
Huntting, Esther 7 b. March 3, 1813, Eebecca 7 b. Aug. 15, 1799, m. Dav- 
id Baker and they had ch. Charles M. 8. Maria E. 8 and Edward 8 ; 
Phebe 7 b. Sept. 8, 1805, d. Feb. 26, 1833, m. Capt. William Hedges and 
they had ch. James M. 8 and Mary M. 8; Julia A. 7 b. June 29, 1808, d. 
June 13, 1859, m Wilkes Hedges and they had ch. John Wilkes 8, Anna 
E. 8, Estner M. 8; Abby M. 7 b. July 21, 1818, m. Eev. James M. Harlow 
and they have ch. James S. 8, Julia 8, Daniel 0. 8, Mary T. 8, Benja- 
min 8 and Court! and 8. 

Joseph 6 soi: of Jonathan 5 had ch. MuJford 7 b. 1775, d. s. p. Oct. 1791 
IB 16, Sylvanus 7 b. Dec. 1780, d. Fob. 28, 1870 te 89, ju. Eebecca King of 



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Aubt. iliLz, Columbia Co. N. Y. abt. 1808 and they had ch. Milton 8, Alan, 
son 8, Colt^stia 8, and Charles 8. 

David 7 son of Joseph b. Aug. 30, 1785. d. Oct. 23, 1857, ii^ 72, m. 

Wrii-^ht, of Columbia Co. N. Y. Sopt. 11, 1811 and they had ch. Samuel 
W. 8, Mary M. 8. John W. 8, David 8, Henry 8, Harriet A. 8. 

JosEi'ii 7 son of Joseph 6 b. Sept. 21, 1789, d. Dec. 29, 1872 a) 83, ra. 
Maria Murdook Huntting, dan. of Dea. Abraham Huntting July 29, 1812, 
she was b. Feb. 15, 1795. they had ch. Charles 8, Sylvan as 8, Samuel 8, 
David 8, Charles 8. 

MULFOED 7 son of Joseph fj b. Nov. 2. 1796, d. Feb. 13, 1871 aj 74, m. 
Esthers, dati. of Benj. Parcons Jan. 1, 1835, and they had ch. Mary M. 8 
b. March 8. 1839, Benjamin J. 8, b. Jan. 22, 1844, Esther E. 8 b. March 
24, 1846, d. Aug. 1882; Mary M. 8 m. Geo. Payne, rem. to Alameda, Cal. 

Jonathan 6 son of .Jonathan 5 had ch. Mary 7 w. of Samnel Stratton 
and they had ch. Anna C. 8, Sylvanus 8, Sidney H. 8, Sarah B. 8, Esther 
T. 8, Mary O. 8, Samuel T. 8, Caroline E. 8. 

Hakvex 7, son of Jonathan 6, b. April 16th, 1789, d. July 17th. 1858, 
had w. Mary Fithian, dau. of Capt. Jonathan Fithiau, b. Nov. 22 1789, d. 
and they had son Geo. A. 8. b. Dec. 2, 1824, m. Florence M. Fithian, b. 
Aug. 1, 1834, and they had ch. Georgiana 9, who d. young, Geo. A. 9, 
Mary Alice 9, Elizabeth F. K. 9 and Emraett C. 9. 

Jonathan 7, son of Jonathan G, b. October 21, 1791, d. June 9. 1872, had 
w. Nancy Case, b. Jan. 1792 and they hadch. Davis C. 8, Mary 8, Hi- 
ram 8, Jonathan N. 8, Henry P. 8, Esther 8 and Margaret 8. 

MULFOKD 7, sou of Jonathan 6, b. Aug. 10, 1794, d. October 10, 1844, 
had w. Pamelia Oakley, they had ch. Maria 8, Eliza 8. William 8 ; Maria 
m. Ilcv. Chas. Bingham, Eliza m. Rev. Isaac Lent ; the last two have ch. 

Abrahasi S. 7, son of Jonathan 6, b. Dec. 27, 1796, d. Nov. 3, 1844, had 
1st w. Eliza Miller and ch. Abraham S. 8, Edward E. 8, and 2d w. Har- 
mony Tuthill, and they had ch. Lewis W. 8 and John W. 8. 

BET.SEY 7, dau. of Jonathan 6, sometimes called Elizabeth Dibble, 
twin with Lsaac S. 7. b. Dec. 12th, 1800, d. 

Isaac S. 7, son of Jonathan 6, had w. Catherine E. Glover, b. Dec. 
15, 1812, d. Nov. 9, 1857, and they had ch. Joseph G. 8, Hetty M. 8, Jon- 
athan M. 8; Hetty M. 8 m. 1st Geo. Lester and -they had ch. Sarah F. 
9 b. 1854; Catherine G. 9 b. Jan. 15, 1860; m. 2d Chas. Tcrbell, who d.s. 
p., Sarah F. 9 m. Frank Edwards; Catherine G. 9 m. IstPhiueas Terry, 
who d. s. p and 2d Robinson ; Jonathan M 8 has w. Eva D. Les- 
ter and they have ch. Isaac Van Scoy 9, Hetty L. 9, Chas. T. 9 and per- 
haps others. 

Henky 6, son of Jonathan 5 had w. Hannah, see ante, and ch. Betsey 

7 b. Feb. 1, 1791, d. Oct. 9, 1781, m. Sylvanus Jones and they had dau. 
Phiiena 8 b. Aug. 27, 1810, d. Nov. 1877, who m. Capt. Wra. Mulford and 
bothd. s. p; Fanny 7 b. Aug. 26, 1794, d. Jan. 25, 1875. m. Capt. Ezekiel 
Jones and they hail dau. Phebe 8 b. Dec. 3, 1822, d. May 19, 1856. m. 
Geo. Hedges anil they had ch. Fanny 9 b. July 7, 1851 and George 9 b. 
March 30, 1856; Henry 7, son of Henry 6, b. Jan. 26, 1796, m. Elnora 
Baker, dau. of Jonathan Baker, b. April 16, 1801, they had ch. Ha:inah 

8 b. April 12, 1823, m. Capt. Ezekiel Howes and had dau. Ellen 9 b. Mch 
17, 18.J5, w. of Henry D. Hedires; Phebe 7 b. Juno 8, 1800. d. Aug. 26, 
1805, Hannah 7 b. July 8, 1802, d. s. p. Jan. 11, 1821, David 7 b. Aug. 20, 
1805, rem. to Beliport, had w. and ch., dau. who m. Goldthwaite and 
son Davii.1 Franks 8 of Water Mill, who in. Sarah E. Howell and has 
ch. Mary 7 b. Oct. 15, 1807, m. Hedges Sautlford, of Water Mill, and d. 
s. i>. Dec. 8th, 1883, Capt. William 7 b. May 12, 1811, d. July, 1842, at sea, 
Capt. of ship Washington, and was buried on the island of Whytotacke 



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ill the Southern Pacific Ocean, where over his grave a monument stands. 
He m. Harriet dau. of I. Burnet Mulford, who had ch. and both d. s. p. 

Hakkiet 1, b. Sept. 20, 1813, d. Apiil 28, 1884, m. Nathaniel. C. Kack- 
ett. of Southold, L. I., and had son William O. 8. 

Joseph 7. son of Joseph 6 and vv. Maria, see ante, liad ch. Charles H. 
8 h. March 15, 1813. d. s. p. Nov. 19, 1828, Samuel H. 8 b. Jan. 27, 
1818, d. Nov. 27, 1828, Chas. H. 8 b. Feb. 25, 1830, d. April 17, 1832, 
Sylvanus M. 8 b. Aug. 28, 1815, had 1st w. Frances A. dau. of Jared 
Loper, of Bridge-Hampton, N. Y., b. Oct. 28, 1816. d. April W, 1880, 
(at Birmingham, Conn, on a visit to her dau. Mary) they had ch. 
Mary F. 9, David E. 9, Joseph H. 9, Mary Francos, 9 b Nov. 1845; m. 
Samuel Miller Gardiner (lawyer) s of Rev. Robert D. b. May 3d. 1840, d. 
Mar. 29, 1880, in Birmingham, Conn., they had ch. Robert S. 10, Fan- 
nie P. 10, Edward E. 10; Joseph H. 9 was b. Sept. 24, 1860, David Ed- 
win 9. b. Aug. 30, 1849, m. Amanda H. dau. of Samuel G. Mulford and 
ttiey had ch. Edward Mulford 10 b. June 1, 1877, Samuel Gardiner 10 b. 
Jan. 20, 1880 ; David D. 8 s. of Joseph 7 b. Dec. 25, 1824, d. Sept. 25, 1881, 
m. 1st Emily C. dau. of Capt. Benjamin A. Gardiner, of Brooklyn. N. Y. 
b. Jan. 29, 1829, d. April 1876, they had ch. Benjamin G. 9 b. Oct. 10, 
1848, Sarah Ella 9 b. Aug. H, 1852, Wm. T. 9 b. Sept. 14, 1855, Herbert 
H. 9 b. Oct. 8, 1862, Charles A. 9 b. March 13, 1870 ; had 2d w. Mrs. Maria 
L. White, dau. of Col. Davis, of 111., who became 2:1 wife of Sylvanus 
M. 8. 

Jonathan 7 s. of Jonathan 6 had ch. Davis C. 8 (Capt.) b. March 23, 
1817, had w. Josephine Case, of Shelter Island, b. 1835, they had ch. 
Walter D. 9 b. Feb. 11, 1857, Maggie 9 b. May 15, 1870, Mary J. 9 b. May 
10, 1873 ; Mary 8 b. 1817, m. Joel Tuthill of West Hampton, L. I. they 
had ch. Nancy 9, Ella 9, Anna 9, John 9; Jonathan Nicolas 8 b. May, 
1825, killed by runaway horses Sept. 29, 1877, unmd., Capt. Hiram 8 b. 
May 1827, had w. Ella Tuthill, his niece, they have ch. Everett 9, Eda 9, 
Henry P. 8 b. May 17, 1829, m. Mary F. Barnes dau. of David Barnes, of 
Amagansett, b. March 16, 1829, they had dau. Phebe E. 9 b. June 1857, 
m. Joseph Cousins, Esther 8 b. July 25, 1831, m. Wm. C. Pye, they had 
ch. Wm. H. 9, Elizabeth 9, Mary E. 9, Ada 9, Edwin O. 9 d. an infant. 
Ernest L. 9, Wm. VanNess 9, Arthur L. 9 d. young; Margaret 8 b. Sept. 
23, 1836, m. Wm. Strong, had s. William 9 b. March 17. 1857. 

Abraham S. 7 s. of Jonathan 6 had w. and ch. Abraham S. 8 b. Aug. 
17, 1828, Edward R. 8 b. Dec. 6, 1831, Lewis W. 8 b. Nov. 4, 1837, John 
W. 8 b. Nov. 24, 1842. 

WAINSCOTT OSBORNES. 

Thomas Osbokne 1 the emigrant had s. John 2 who rem. to Wain- 
scott. 

John 2 of Wainseott d. abt. 1687, had w. and sons Thomas 3, John 3 
Caleb 3, Edward 3, and Ephraim 3. 

Thomas 3 b. abt. 1660, d. June 23, 1745 as abt. 85 less 6 weeks, had w. 
Mary d. Jan. 21, 1733, they had ch. Elisha 4, John 4, Zebedee 4, Timo- 
thy 4, Abigail 4, Nathan 4, Samuel 4, Prudence 4, Mehetabel 4, Hur 4, 
John 4, Jededi-ih 4, (note, the ^st John d. young.) 

Jedediah 4 had several children, and among others Jedediah 5 and 
Jonathan 5. 

Jonathan 5 b. June 1737, d. Nov. 1814 (was a private in Capt. Hal- 
lock's Militia Co. of Bridge-Hampton, in the Revolution ; took part in 
the battle of Long Island and Trenton; had w. Mary dau. of Thomas 
Miller and Sarah Hopping. They had ch. Mary 6 who d. single m 27, 
Sarah 6 who m. Elisha Osborn of Wainseott, Chloe 6 w, of James Hand, 



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Phebe 6 w. 1st ot Eeuel Hand, w. 2d of Jo^n Strong, Jonathan 6 b. Aug. 
U, 1771, d. Dec. 22, 1856. , ^ ^ , 

Capt. Jonathan 6 of Wainseott b. Aug. 14, 1771, had w. Betsey Schel- 
iouger, dau. of Abraham Sclitilleugei- and Lois Coiikling, (this Abraham 
was s. of Jonathan, who was s. of Jacob) and they had ch. Polly 7 b. 
Sept. 20, 1799. d. March 14', 1«17, Eliza 7 b. Dec. 4, 1800. d. Feb. 15, 1889. 
(m. July 13, 1822, by Eev. Ebenezer Phillips of E. Hampton) to Gurdei. 
Halsey of B. Hampton), Jonathan 7 b. May 27, 1802, d. June 22, 188(', 
David 7 d. an infant, Isaac 7 d. an infant and Isaac 7 b. April 18, 1*01, 
d. Feb. 25. 1893, Abraham 7 b. Aug. 24, 1808, drowned at sea Jan. 1, 18?ft, 
Conkling 7 b. Dec. 26, 1811, d. July 1877, David 7 b. Feb. 18, 1815, d. 
Sept. 22, 1827. 

Jonathan 7 had w. Polly Loper of Amagansett and they had ch Laura 
C. 8 b. March 11, 1827, David P. 8 b. Dec. 1, 182tf, Henry L. 8 b. May J;5, 
1834, Ellen 8 b. March 1832 d. young, James L. 8 b. Sept. 17, 1838, Ellen 
P. 8 of Scuttle Hole b. Nov. 21, 1840, Phebe G. 8 b. March 6, 1843, Abrii- 
ham 7 m. Almira Loper. 

Conkling 7 had w. Hannah Harris and ch. Charles J. 8, James H. 8, 
Edward J. 8, Dora 8. 

Eliza 7 w. of Gurden Halsey had ch. George A. 8 b. April 15, 182.:}, Polly 
Osborn 8 b. Sept. 24, 1824, d. Nov. 30, 1829, Sarah W. 8 b. Aug. 28, 1826, 
d. Sept. 13, 1827, Jacob L. 8 b. Aug. 18, 1828, Harriet E. 8 b. Oct. 24, 1830, 
Elizabeth S. 8 b. Feb. 18, 1833, Jonathan Osborn 8 b. Aug. 6, 1836, d. 
Feb. 12, 1893, Phebe J. 8 b. June 3, 1842. 

Henky L. 8 s. of Jonathan 7 b. May 13, 1834, has ch. Jonathan Ed- 
wards 9 b. March 26. 1866, George Henry 9 b. Aug. 25, 1868, Walter 
Howell 9 b. Julv 21, 1877. 

Jonathan Edwakds 9 b. March 26, 1866, had w. Mary Dudley, and 
they have ch. Florence 10 and Sarah 10 b. Aug. 8, 1891, at Salt LakoCity. 

EiiiSHA 4 s. of Thomas 3 had s. Elisha 5 b. Nov. 10, 1734. 

Elisha 5 b. Nov. 10, 1734. m. Dec. 15, 1758, Alice Edwards ; they had 
ch. Capt. Thomas 6 b. Oct. 3, 1759, Aliriam 6 b. Jan. 29, 1761 d. unm., 
Capt. Nathan 6 b. April 16, 1763, rem. to Austerlitz, Columbia Co. N. Y. 
Climena 6 b. July 28, 1765, m. Gamaliel Edwards, and they rem. to West 
Stockbribge Centre and had ch. Orlando 7, William 7, Osborn 7, Laura 7 
and Harvey 7; Elisha, Jr. 6 b. April 19, 1769, Alice 6 b. Feb. 17, 1771, d. 
unm., John Stratton 6 b. April 25, 1775. 

Thomas 6 b. Oct. 3, 1759, rem. to Austerlltz, Columbia Co. N. Y., m. 
Mary Conkling and they had ch. David C. 7, Elisha C. 7. Betsey 7, Pol- 
ly 7 and Jul'a 7 ; Dapid C. 7 had en. David L. 8, John N. 8, Mary A. 8 w. 

of Tyler and Julia E. 8 w. of James H. Topping; Elisha C. 7 had 

ch. Lester T. 8, Ophelia 8, Helen M. 8. Eugenia E. 8 ; Betsey 7 dau. of 

Capt. Thomas 6 m. Calkins ard had ch. Alvin 8, George 8, Mary 8, 

Eliza 8, Harriet C. 8, Abiram 8, Thomas 8, Harriet N. 8 and Henry 8 ; 
Julia 7 dau. of Capt. Thomas 6 m. Josiah White and they had ch. Tliom- 
as 8, Maltby G. 8 and William W. 8 who all d. s. p. 

EiiiSHA, Jk. 6 b. April 19, 1769. d. Dec. 9, 1856, ee 87, had w. Mary dau. 




1809, d. April 23, 1832 unm., Betsey 7 b. June 6, 1815, d, Dec. 18, 1844, m. 
John N. Hedges and they had ch. Elisha O. 8 and Mary L. 8; Juliette 7 
d. an infant, David 7 b. Feb. 3, 1821, d. Jan. 11, 1847 unm. 

Thomas 7 b. Nov. 5, 1807, d. March 9, 1867, m. Adela H. Sayre, b. Jan. 
8, 1813, d. Feb. 25, 1886, and they had ch. Alice 8 b. Aug. 27, 1840, d. Jan. 
22, 1841, Adela S. 8 b. Dec. 8, 1841. d. May 24, 1862, m. Dec. 7, 1857 Cor- 



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iiclius Coukling and they had s. Elisha 9 b. May 2, 1861, d. May 28, 1862, 
Nathan T. 8 b. Nov. 6, 1843, d. Jan. 30, 1847, John M. 8 b. Jan. 8, 1846, 
Elisha 8 b. Nov. 26, 1847, d. Aug. 29, 1848, Charlotte P. 8 b. March 7, 
1850, d. Sept. 24, 1860, Oliver S. 8 b. Sept. 28, 1853. 

John M. 8 b. Jan. 8, 1846, d. Aug. 9, 1894, m. June 2, 1875 Louisa H. 
Edwards, b. July 24, 1851 ; they had eh. Martha A. 9 b. Aug. 31, 1876, 
Alice E. 9 b. March 9, 1879, Thomas 9 b. April 26, 1880, Fannie S. 9 b.Oct. 

4, 1883, Mary L. 9 b. Nov. 25, 1887, Amy C. 9 b. Jan. 28. 1892. 

Olivek S. 8 b. Sept. 28, 1853, m. Jan. 1, 1879 Euth Hedges and have 
ch. Elisha 9 b. Jan. 22, 1883, Eaymjond Hopping 9 and LeRoy Hedges 9, 
twins, b. July 13, 1891. 

John S. 6 b. April 25, 1775, d. Aug. 22. 1852, ra. Puah Terbell, she d. 
Nov. 23, 1850, and had ch. Louisa 7"b. 1808 and John S. 7 b. Sept. 9, 1818- 

John S. ^ b. Sept. 9, 1818, m. Jane M. Payne, she d. Sept. 15. 1890 and 
they had ch. David C. 8 b. Oct. 31, 1848, Libbie H. 8 b. July 4, 1850 John 

5, 8 b. Jan. 29, 1852, Jennie M. 8 b. April 4, 1857, Florence N. P. 8 b. Feb. 

6, 1861. Elisha 4 had s. Zebedee 5 who had s. Elisha 6. 

Elisha 6 was in Connecticut during the Eevolutionary war (probably 
leaving L. I. with his father). To designate him from other Elishas 
his neighbors called him "Continental Osborn." 

Elisha 6 had ch. Malines7, Chauncey 7, and dau. Charlotte 7 w. of 
Capt. Sylvester Miller, of Amaga,nsett. 

MaijINes 7 had w. Abigail Loper and they had ch. Fitz A. 8, Geo. B. 8 
Nathan P. 8, Bordaloue S. 8, Casablanca 8, Sarah J. 8 w. of Andrew 
Strong and Josephine W. 8 w. of Jonathan E. Bennett; Casablanca 8 
d. unm. the other ch. all have ch. 

Chauncey 7 had w. Miranda and ch. Adelaide 8 w. of Geoi'ge Hedges, 
and Isabella 8. 

THE PAESONS FAMILY. 

In addition to the sketch of this family in Howell's History of South- 
ampton, William H. Parsons, of Fire Place, and Adelia A. Sherriil (nee 
Parsons) have largely contributed to the following genealogy : 

The line runs thus : Samuel Parsons, 1, the 1st of the name on Long 
Island, came from Lynn with the settlers to East-Hampton in 1649 and 
had three sons, John 2, Eobert 2 and Samael, Jr. 2, b. 1630, d. 1714, a> 
84; Seth 3 b. 1065, d. 1725, a3 60 ; John 4 b. 17()5, d. 1793, ee 88; ElnathanS 
b. Oct. 3, 1753, d. Dec. 7, 1836, a3 83; Wm. Davis b. Sept. 28, 1793, d. 
April 8, 1785, ee 82; William H. 7 b. May 9, 1832, now living; Charles 
S. 8 b. April 1, 1858, now living. . 

Elnathan 5 had w. Urania Dominy, and ch. Elnathau, Jr. 6 b, Jan. 
22. 1787, d. May 1, 1863, re 76, Sc Ion 6 b. Ma^ch 1, 1789, d. July 15, 1863, 
ffi 74, Nathaniel 6 b. April 12, 1791. d. Aug. 22, 1811, a) 20, William D. 6, 
b. Sept. 28, 1793, d. April 8, 1875, £e 82, Phebe 6 b. Dec. 1796, d. an in- 
fant, Charlvs b. Feb. 3, 1798, d. May 26, 1877, a? 79. Phebe 6 b, June 1, 
1801, J. Aug. 20, 1878, ee 77, Jonathan B. 6 b. April 23, 1804, d. July 10, 
1889, SB 85. 

Great Grandfather John 4 was b. 1705, d. June 28, 1793. He m twice 
His 1st w. was "widow Barnes" hose maiden name Avas Mai'tha Ed- 
wards ; she was a native of Conn. His 2d w. was a widow Abigail Chat- 
field (she m. Thomas Chattield, Jr. Nov. 11, 1735; he d. Jan. 1, 1742, ro 
38) whose maiden name wasMulford ; she d. Sept. 19, 1806, so 89, John 
and Abigail had ch. Elnathau 5, Stephen 5 and Seth 5 ; Elnathau 5 lived 
at Fire Place ; Stephen rem. to Hoosac, Seth 5 to New Baltimore ; one 
daughter Puah 5 m. John Davis 1772; he was Major in the Eevolution, 



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died in a Jersey prison ship ; went up the Mohawk with Gon. Wash- 
ington. 

Elnathan 5 was b. Oct. 3, 1753 ; Urania Dominy his wife, daughter 
of Nathaniel Dominy and Hr.nnah Baljer Dominy, was b. April 18, 1765. 
Nhthaniol Dominy b. 1736, Hannah Baker Dominy b. 1740 ; they had ch. 
Elnathan 6, Chanes 6, Jonathan B. 6, Solon 6, William Davis (Col.) 6. 

Samuel 2 b. 1630, d. July 6, 1714, m. Hannah who d. Oct. 3, 1728, 

.T about 83 (probably 2d wife) and had ch. John 3 b. al-t. 1660, d. 1715, 
Louisa 3 or Lois 3, Esther 3, Seth 3 b. 1665, d. 1725, Sarah 3, Robert 3 
b. about 1680, d. 1742, aud Samuel 3 b. 1683, d. 1753. 

John 3 b. about 1660, d. about 1715, had ch. Henry 4 b. say abt. 1690, 
d. 1715, Samuel 4 b. 1693, d. 1752, Abigail 4 bap. 1701, Puah 4 bap. 1701, 
and John 4 b. 1705, d. 1793. 

Heney 4 b. 8ay about 1690 and drowned from a capsized whaleboat 
Fob. 24, 1719, had ch. Phebe 5 bap. 1730, Mary 5 bap. 1734, and Sa' ah 5, 
bap. 1738. 

Samuel 4 b. 1693, d. Aug. 18, 1752, m. Hannah Baker Dec. 14, 1715, 
had ch. Hannah 5 bap. 1718, Deborah 5 bap, 172^, Samuel 5 bap. 1725, 
and Mary 5 bap. 1729. 

Samuel 5 bap. 1725, m. Mary Merry 1747, had ch. Merry 6 Dap. Jan. 
1748, Marv 6 bap. Oct. 1749, Puah 6 bap. 1751, Samuel 6 bap. Aug. 1753, 
and Hannah 6 bap. May 1768. 

Mekky 6 bap. Jan. 1748, had ch. Elizabeth 7 bap. April 1771, Tal- 
mage 7 bap, Oct. 1776, Augustus 7 bap. March 1779, Sylvanus 7 bap. 
June 1785, Lewis 7 bap. April 1789 and Merry 7. 

Augustus 7 bap. March 1779, had s. Samuel 8 and perhaps others. 

Meeky 7 had s. Thomas T. 8. 

Thomas T. 8 rem. to Orient Point, IS. Y. and had ch. Augustus 3, 
Merry 8 and a daughter. 

Sylvanus 7 bap, 1785 m. Hannah T-^rbell and had ch. Lawton 8 and 
Merry 9 and Marietta 8 w. of David Carll. 

Meeky 8 had ch, Ella 9 and Edith 9. 

Lewis 7 had dau. Mary 8. 

John 4 b. 1705, d. 1793, son of John 3, m. Phebo Miller May 16, 1740 
and had ch. Mary 5 w. of Jeremiah Osborn, and Phebe 5 w. of Samuel 
Hutchinson. 

Seth 3 b. 1665, d. Sept. 19. 1725, had ch. Hannah 4 bap. 1701, Eliza- 
beth 4 bap. 1704, John 4 bap. 1706, Stephen 4 bap. 1709, Elizabeth 4 (again) 

bap. 1712, and w. of Woodruff, Puah 4 bap. 1717 w. of Recompense 

Shcirill, and Seth 4 who d. s. 9 1752 and was b. about 1702. 

JoH]<f 4 bap. 1706, d. 1793, son of Seth 3, m. 1st wid. Martha Barnes, 
Oct. 25, 1729, an., had by her four ch. Puah 5 bap. Sept. 6, 17.30, Mary 5 
bap. 1732, Mercy 5 bap. 1733 and Elizabeth 5 bap. 1735. John 4 m. 2d w. 
wid. Phebe Chatfield (nee Mulford) and had ch. John 5 bap. 1737, Abi- 
gail 5 bap. Sept. 1741, Seth 5, bap. March 1740, Elnathan 5 bap. Nov. 1753 
and Stephen 5 bap. 1754, and perhaps others 

Seth 5 bap. March 1749, had ch Seth 6 rem. to Hoosac Falls. Jehiel 6 
bap. 1790 rem. to same place. Hedges 6 and Chatfield 5. twins, bap. 1783, 
Julia 6 bap. 1792, Abigail6 and Andrew 6. 

Hedcjes 6 had ch. Chatfield H. 7 of Fredonia, N. Y. Seth F. 7 of Min- 
nesota, David 7 of Springs, East-Hampton. Charloi^ D. 7, Manchester, 
Ct. and Nathaniel T. 7 of E. Hampton. 

Seth F. 7 had dau. Julia 8. 

David 7 liad ch. Jehiel M. 8, Seth F. 8 and David Edgar 8. 

Jeuiel M. 8 m. Phebe dau. of Charles Osborn and had ch. Samuel 9 
and Sarah 9. 



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Charles D. 7 of Manchester had ch. Anne 8 and Charles 8. 

Elnathan 6 b. Jan. 22, 1787, d. May 1, 1863, and rem. to Glens Falls, 
N. Y., had ch. Eev. Henry M. 7 and Charles 7. 

Eev. Henky M. 7 m. Max'la dau. of James Brown had one son who 
d. young. 

Chakles 7 had d. Sarah 7. 

Chakles 6 b. Feb. 3, 1798, d. May 26, 1877, m. Eleanor Karris, of 

Southampton and rem. there and had ch. Mary 7 who m. Dr. Gil- 

dernleeve, of Port Jefferson, L. I. and Sarah Jane 7 who m. Charles 
White of Sovithampton. 

Jonathan B. 6 b. April 23, 1804, d. July 10, 1889, rem. to New Bruns- 
wick, N. J. 

Solon 6 b. March 1, 1789, d. July 15, 1863, rem. from East-Hampton 
and had ch. 

William D. 6 b. Sept. 28, 1793, d. April 8, 1875, had 1st w. Khodes 

and d. Frances 7 had 2d w. Maria and ch. William H. 7 and Julius D. 7. 

William H. 7 b. May 9, 3832, m. Mary J. and has ch. Charles S. 8 

b. April 1, 1858, William D. 8 b. March 1, 18G0, Edward W. 8 d. Aug. 16, 
1862, d. Jan. 28, 1885, Frank W. 8 b. June 17, 1865, Henry Hale 8 b. June 
2, 1868, Maria D. 8 b. Dec. 25, 1872, d. May 27, 1893 and Daniel D. 8 b. 
Sept. 25, 1874. 

Chaeles S. 8 b. April 1, 1858, m. Mary E. Talmage Oct. 21, 18156; she 
was b. April 23, 1858 and have no ch. 

William D. 8 b. March 1, I860, m. Mary A. Coiikliu July 2, 1891, she 
was b. Feb. 15, 1.S70 and have ch. William D. 9 b. Oct. 20, 1592. 

Fkank W. 8 b. June 7, 1565, m. Sarah K. Monroe March 16, 1SS8, she 
was b. Nov. 13, 1564 and nave ch. Eddie E. 9 b. Aug. 25, 1559, d. Oct. 3, 
1559, Elbert V. 9 b. May 11, 1591 and Ealph 9 b. June 25, 1596. 

Henky Hale 5 b. June 2, 1565, ni, May 3, 1593 Phebe J. Parsons, who 
was b. Jan. 2, 1574, and have ch. Maria D. 9 b. Nov. 22, 1594, and Har- 
ry E. 9 b. March 8, 1896. 

Daniel D. 8 d. Sept. 25, 1874, m. Feb. 10, 1894 Essie B. Edwards, who 
was b.. March 23, 1875, and have ch. G-ertrude L. 9 b. Nov. 25, 1894. 

Julius D. 7 d. Sept. 5, 1841, m. Dec. 5. 1867 Mary E. Schellenger, b. 
Sept. 26, 1841 and has ch. Lillie M. 8 b. Nov. 13, 1869 d. young, Egbert 
J. 8 b. Dec. 24, 1871, d. young, Bessie S. 8 b. J.une 20. 1874, Herbert W.8 
b. Sept. 23, 1876. 

Stephen 5 bap. 1754, d. 1851, had ch. John D. 6 b. 1782, Silas E. 6 bap. 
1783, Darius 6, Stephen 6 bap. 1785, Andrew 6 bap. 1788, Hannah 6 bap. 
1789, Phebe C. 6 bap. 1796, Sylvanus 6. Anson 6, Melvin 6. Samuel 6, 
Amanda 6, Caroline 6. 

Stephen 6 bap. April 11, 1785, d. July 13, 1820, m. Dec. 31, 1809 Han- 
nah Thorne of New Baltimore, Greene Co., N Y. and had ch. Phebe 
C. 7 b. Nov. 4, 1810, James W. 7 b. Feb. 10, 1812, John D. 7 b. April 27, 
1815 and Sarah A. 7 b. Oct. 31, 1818. 

Phebe C. 7 b. Nov. 4, 1810, m. Chas. Meigs of Albany, N. Y. end rem. 
to Elkhorn, Wis. and had ch. CaroUne 8 w. Geo. Mallorj of South Lan- 
sing, Tompkins Co. N. Y., Anna 8 w. Geo. Hillmaii, Portland, Oregon, 
Mary 8 w. of Soth Minckler, Chicago, Elizabeth 8, Henrietta 8 vv. Mr. 
Pomposki, Milwaukee, Charles 8, Isabel 8 w. Geo Gray, Oregon, Mel- 
vin 8, VanLoan 8, 

James W. 7 b. Feb. 10, 1812, m. Elizo Gray (b. in 181-5) in 1836 and had 
ch. Stephen Henry8 b. Aug. 15, 1840, Sarah Elizabeth 80. Aug. 3, 1846, 
James W. 8 b. Dec. 26, 1849, Arthur 8 b. 1850, 1851, Arthur 8 (again) b. 
Dec. 20, 1853, Eloise 8 b. May 19. 1856. 



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Stephen H. 8 b. Aug. 15, 1840, m. Jennie A. Greer, June 15, 1869, and 
has ch. Jessie G. 9 b. May 1870, Martha G. 9 b. Jan. 10, 1874 and Albert 
G. 9 b. May 10, 1877. 

James W. 8 b. Dec. 26, 1849, m. Mary Blake in 1872, and has ch. Grace 
9 b. Jan. 1874 and Nellie 9 b. 1877. 

John D. 7 b. April 27. 1815, of Albany, of the firm of Weed & Parsons, 
m. Ellenor Bowne Oct. 1841, and has ch. EUenor A. 8 b. Aug. 31, 1842 d 
Feb. 15, 1843, Mary Ellcnor 8 b. July 12, 1844, John D. 8 b.'Jan. 2, ls47, 
Henry B. 8 b. Oct. 1, 1848. d. in infancy, Henry B. 8 again April 30, 1850 
Fredcick W. 8 b. April 23, 1852, d. Jan. 6, 1854, Anna M. 8 b. Aug. 23 
1854, A.da Maria 8 b. June 27. 1856, Effie T. 8 b. May 16, 1859, d. June 14 
1863, Ella D. 8 b. Marcn 24, 1862. 

John D. 8 b. Jan. 2, 1847, m. Agnes E. Chase Nov. 9, 1870. 

Henry B. 8 b. April 30, 1850, m. Carrie M. Peck Nov. 20, 1872. 

Maky Ellenok 8 b. July 12, 1844, m. Geo. Beadle, of Syracuse, N. Y 
Feb. 17, 1874. 

Anna M. 8 b. Aug. 23, 1854, m. Walter M. Newton, o*f Albany, N. Y.. 
Sept. 5, 1878, and had ch. John Parsons 9 b. Nov. 3, 1879. 

Ai>A M. 8 b. June 27, 1856, m. Willi:;m V. Page, of Albany. N. Y. Jan. 
29,1879. "^ 

Sakah a. 7 b. Oct. 31, 1818, m. John Thomas, of Albany, N. Y., and 
has ch. Hannah Louise 8 b. 1847, Elva 8 b. 1849, J. Melven 8 b. 1851 
Anson P. 8 b. 1853, Annie 8 b. 1855. d. 1857, and L. Loyd 8. 

Hannah L. Thomas 8 b. 1847, m. Matthew Bender and has ch. Mat- 
thew 9, John 9, Ella 9, Bertha 9, Melven 9. 

J. Melvin Thomas 8 m. Helen Piatt. 

Silas E. 6 bap. 1783, m. wid. Esther Smedlev of Fairfield, Ct., in 1818 
and had ch. Sylvanus H. H. b. 1819. 

SXLVANUS H. H. 7 of Albany, b. 1819, m. Maria L. Van Schoonhoven 
in 1813, and has ch. Louisa L. 8 l>. 1844, Esther 8 b. 1846, w. of Elihu 11 
Smith of Albany, Henry C. 8 b. 1853 and John D. 8 b. Feb. 22, 1857 

KOBEKT 3 b. 1680 or 1681, d. Jan. 8, 1742, re about 60, m. 1st Mary 
Doniiuy March 6, 1700 (probably 1701) and 2d w. Hannah, and had ch 
Kobert 4. John 4, Sarah 4, Mohetabel 4 and Henry 4. 

lloiJEKT 4 ni. Mary dau. lioger Davis Dec. 1, 1735, and had ch. Mary 5 
bap. 1739, William 5 bap. 1741, Kobert 5 bap. 1745, and perhaps others. 

William 5 bap. 1741, had son William 6 bap. 1770, and Abraham 6. 

lloKEKX 5 bap. 1745, had ch. Elizabeth 6 and Mary 6, both bap. 1775 

John 4 m. Sarah Sherrill Nov. 20, 1739 and had ch. Henrv 5 bap. 1741 
Sarah 5 bap. 1743, and Jeremiah 5 bap. 1745, and perhaps others. 

Samuel, 3 b. 1683, d. Feb. 3, 1753, had son John 4. 

John 4 m. Patience Conkling Oct. 9, 1729, she d. April 18, 1739, ro 38- 
he m. 2d Martha Cook of Mecox Aug. 27, 1739 ; he m. 3d Phebe and 



had ch. Bachel 5 bap. 1730. Esther 5 bap. 1732, Sarah 5 bap. 1735, Phehe 
5 bap. 1740, John 5 bap. 1743, and perhaps Ludlow 5 bap. April 1747 Jo- 
siah o bap. March 1749 and I'uah 5 bap. June 1751. 

John 5 bap. 1743, d. 1824, ju 82, had ch. (probably) John 6 bap. Sept. 
76/, Mary 6 bap. Dec. 1775, Esther 6 bap. May 17.S1, and iterhapa others. 

Liij>Low 5 bap. 1747, had ch. Abraham 6, William 6, and perhaps Pol- 



bap 
JOHN D Dap. 1V43, a. 1824, ju 82. h 

Li!j>Low 5 bap. 1747, had ch. Abraham 6, William 6, and perhap 
ly 6 who ni. Davia Talniago 3d. 

William 6 m. and rem. to Stillwater, N. Y. and had ch. Anna 7 and 
Lydia 7. 

AnjiAHAM 6 d. bept. 10, 1844, oo 72, m. Anna Terry who d. Sept. 13, 1861 
re 8/, they had ch William 7 b. ISOO. Jeremiah T. 7 b. 1802, Martha T 7 
b. l^s()u, d. March 2, 1826, Mary A. 7 b. 1807. 

WiiiHAM 7 b. 1800, d. Sept. 1816, m. Anna C. Stratton, she d. April 



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1875, they had ch. Abraham S. 8 b. 1829, William Lewis 8 b. 1833, A.delia 
A. 8 b. 1838 and Juliet D. 1842. 

Abraham S. 8 b. 1829, d. Jan. 1895, m. Ellen S. Schellenger 18C0, and 
had eh. Minnie G. 9, Mary H. 9, Ella C. 9, Anastasia W. 9, William A. 9 
b. 1875, d. 1870, Ettie C. 9, Lewis S. 9 and John D. 9. Minnie G. 9 m. 
Thos. Garrett, of Va., Mary H. 9 m. Chas. Bennett, Anastasia W. 9 m. 
Cliarlea Mulford. 

William Lewis 7 b. 1833 rem. to Norsho Falls, Kansas and m. 1876 
Jennie Halloway and had ch. Anna E. b. 1877, and Wm. Sherrill b. 1878. 

Note. — Col. W. Lewis Parsons went to Denver in 1^59, and for about 
two years was engaged in mining. Ho returned in the fall of 18G0 to 
Kacine, Wis., and the following Spring enlisted in Co. F. 2d Wiconsin 
Infantry. Was mustered in as 2d Lieutenant April ISOl, served three 
years and six months, and was in all the engagements of his command. 
Ho was promoted to 1st Lieut. Aug. 1861, made Capt. Oct 1861. promot- 
ed Major Oct. 1863, and after the battle of Gettysburg was commission- 
ed Col. of 2d Wis. Volunteer Infantry, but was taken prisoner before he 
was mustered in. He was in many of the heaviest engagements of the 
war, was wounded several times, the last time was left for dead in the 
held, and taken prisoner and held in confinement seven months and 
was finally paroled near the close of the war, and was mustered out at 
Washington, D. C. in Jan. 1865. 

Adelia a. 8 b. 1838, m. 1859 Nathaniel Sherrill and has ch. Anna M. 9 
b. 1860, Abram E. 9 b. 1862, Mary J. 9 b. 1865, Julia P. 9 b. 1868, A. 
Blanche 9 b. 1871, Willie N. 9 b. and d. in 1874 ; Mary J. 9 m. 1888 Hei'bert 
L. Bates of Rutland, Vt., Julia P. 9 m. 1889 Wm. H. Hedges, Abram E. 
m. 1890 Nettie J. Glover. 

Juliet 8 b. 1842, m. 1871 John S. Sherrill of Pike, N. Y. and rem. from 
thence to Minneapolis, Minn., and has ch. L. Elizabeth 9 b. 1873, Euth 
A. 9 b. 1885; L. Elizabeth 9 m. 1895 Fred T. Merritt. 

Jekemiah T. 7 b. 1802, d. J une 1876, m. 1st Mary Cook who d. 1830, 
m. 2d Phebe Cook and had ch. Jeremiah T. 8, Mary A. 8, Nathan C. 8 b. 
1825, d. 1829, Henry C. b. 1834, d. ro 3 mos. 

Jeremiah T. Jr. 8 m, 1st Adeline S. TiUinghast who d. 1853, and had 
ch. Edmund T. 9 ; m. 2d Mary TiUinghast, she d. 1863, and they had ch. 
Ad<'lino 9 d. 1886 and Cliarles 9 who u. 18(54; m. 3d Julia A. Edwards and 
had ch. Fanny 9 and Fred C. 9 ; Fanny 9 m. George Griffiug of Shelter 
Island. 

Mary A. 8 m. Daniel Schellengcr and had ch. Adeline T., Wilfred and 
Mary ; both the last named are dead. 

Mary Ann 7 b. 1807, d. 1887, m. Aaroa Fithiau and had ch Mary A. b. 
1831, Jonathan b. 1835, William S. b. 1839, Jerusha D. b. 1842, who m. 
18,S7 John Lester. 

Edmund T. 9 m. Carrie E. Miller and has ch. Ernest 10. 

THE SGHELLENGER FAMILY. 

Isaac Schellenger, late of Amagansett, deceased, made a genealogy 
of this family, dated Feb. 26, 1884, sig-.ed it, and gave it to me. T.-ere- 
from I have compiled the following : 

Jacob Schellinx 1, or Schellinger, came to this country about the 
year 1G53, and transacted busiuess in Now Amsterdam (now New- York) 
as agent for his uncle, a merchant of Amsterdam, Holland. His wife 
was Catherine Melyn, a sister of Cornelius Meiyn, Patroon of Staten 
Island, and daughter of Cornelius Melyn. He d. in East-Hampton June 
17, 1()93, (0 67, and she d. Feb. 25, 1717, so 88. They had ch. William 2 
bap. March 8, 1654, Catherine 2 b. April 9, 1656, Abraham 2 b. Feb. 11, 



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lOo'J, Diiiiiol 2, Coruolius 2 and Jacob 2. Dauitsl 2 resided in Harlem, 
Holland, d. in Batavia, E. Indies, in 1701, leaving in Harlem a wid. and 
I think no ch. Cornelius 2 probably resided on Stateu Island, or near 
N. Y. city. William 2 resided in E. Hami)tou and d. th(uo March G, 
17:5;"). Catliorino 2, Abraham 2 and Jacob 2 settled In Amagansett, near 
1C)90, and died there. Catherine 2 m. Nathaniel Baker 2 8. of Thomas 1 
and they had ch. 

AitEAiiAM 2 b. Feb. 11, ICSy, d. Jan. 1, 1712, m. Joanna Hedges Nov, 
15, IGSS: shed. Nov. 1, 1708; they had ch. Joanna 3 b. Dec. ICS'J. m. 
Samuel Ogden of Newark, N. J. Sept. 10. 1707, Bachel 3 b. Nov. 8, 1(;d1, 
m. David Gardiner, of Gardiner's Island, April 15, 1713 ; William 3 b. 
April 9, 1G94; Abraham 3 b. Juno 29, 1G97. d. N< v. 5, 1718; Isaac 3 b. 
March 17, 1G99, wlio rem. while a youuu; man ; Amy 3 b. June 7, 1701, in. 
Joshua Plumb of New London, Ct. Nov. 11, 1723; Zerviah 3 b. Au.ir. 15, 
1705, m. Samuel Hudson Nov. 9, 1722; William 3 b. April 9. 1094, was 
drowned Fob. 21, 1719, had w. Phebe his wid. and infant sous William 4, 
Abraham 4. The wid. Phebe m. Abraham Nott Oct. 8. 1722. 

Jacob 2, son of Jacob 1 d. Jan. 28. 1713. had w. Hannah and ch. Han- 
nah 3 b. Aug. 15, 1G93,, m. William Whitehead of Elizabcthtown, N. J. 
May 3, 1715; Catharine 3 b. Aug. 5, 1G95, m. John Coiikling, Jr. Sept. 
25. 1725; Hester 3 b. Nov. IG, 1G97, m. Thomas Osborn 3d Dec. 8, 1720; 
Mercy 3 b. Nov. 4, 1C99, m. Samuel Baker Oct. 18, 1721 ; Jacob 3 b. Nov, 
22, 1702, drowned in the surf Jan. 17, 1753; Daniel 3 d. March 28, 1709; 
Abigail 3 b. Feb. 14, 1705, m. Wm. Kogers. of Bridge-Hampton, Nov, 12, 
1724; Daniel 3 b. March 1, 1710, rem. to Bridge Hampton and had w. 
and several cniklren, his dau. Mary 4 m. John Cook and d. Doc. 28, 1778 
te 4G years, his sou Daniel 4 rem. to Chester, Morris Co. N. J. with his 
family In 1777; Jonathan 3 b. Dec. 11, 1712. 

Jacob 3 b. Nov. 22, 1702, eon of Jacob 2, had w. and ch. Hannah 4 bap. 
in 1725, m. Joseph Hicks Nov. 20, 1745 ; Jacob 4 ba.i>. 1727, d. May 2, 
1751; Mary 4 bap. 1729, m. David Loper June 15. 1754; Mercy 4 bap. 
1730, m. Zebedee Osborn, of Waiuscott, Feb. 1, 1752; Jonathan 4 bap. 
1733, Catherine 4 bap. 173G, no other record found, Abraham 4 bap. 1738 
Isaac 4. 

Abkauam 4 hod w. and several ch. a dau. Betsey 5 m. Capt, Jonathan 
Osborn, of Waiuscott; his son Abraham 5 m. Susan Field, of E. Hamp- 
ton and they had ch. Abraham M. G, Elizaam (!, Mariett 6, David W. G, 
and Emeline 6, of whom Abraham M. G rem. to Lynn, Mass. and died 
there, leaving son George Bruce 7 ; David W. G d. in Sag-Harbor, leav- 
iu a sou 7; Daniel 5, a sou of Abraham 4 d. in Sag-Harbor, leaving sons 
John N. G, George G, William G; Isaac 4, son of Jacob 3, d. abt. 1800, 
leaving sons Christopher 5 and Daniel 5; his family rem. to N. Jersey. 

Jonathan 4, s. of Jacob 3, bap. I'^SS, d . Juno 1814, had 1st w. Eliza- 
beth Stratton, who d. March 12, 1781 : they had ch. Elizabeth 5 b. Oct. 
5, 175(;, d. 1824, Jacob 5 b. Dec. 22, 1758, d. April G, 1821, Phebe 5 b. June 
2G, 1761, Jonathan 5 b. April 27, 17G3. d. Jan. 7, 1839, Samuel 5 b. April 
10, 17G5, d. Jan, 18, 1848, Mercy 5 b. April 13, 17G7, d. 1798. Hannah 5 b. 
Sept. 3, 17G8: had 3d w, Hannah (Conkling) Darby, and they had Sylves- 
ter 5 b. Sept. 3. 1785. 

Jacob 5 s. of Jonathan 4 b. Dec. 22, 1758, m. Elizabeth dau. of Joseph 
Edwards, of Amagansett, she d. May 23, 1823, they had ch. Betsey G b. 
Dec. .0, 1791, d. Dec. 2G, 182G. ju. Sylvester Strong, of Waiuscott, and 
they rem. to New Paltz, Ulster Co. N. Y. ; Henry G b. Nov. 21, 1793. d. 
Feb, 28, 1840, Pheb(! (I b. Marcli 31, 1798, d. Feb. 2G, 1877, Harriet G b. 
March 12, 1802, d. May 15, 1N81, Clarissa G b. March 12, 1802, d. Ai)ril 2, 
1883, Jacob G b. Sept. 30, 1805, d. Aug. 9, 1883. 



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Heney 6 b. Nov. 21, 1793, m. Caroline Haud, of Amagansett, b. June 
23, 179.S, they had ch. Amanda 7 b. Feb. 11, 1818, d. Sept. 12, 1845, m. D. 
Terry Vail, of East Marion, Dee. 26, 1837; Edward D. 7 b. DiW. 10, 1820, 
m. Adaliue dau. of Lester Bennett Dec. 24, 1845; Alfred H. 7 b. April 
IC, 1823, Henry 7 b. Jan. 20, 1820, d. Aug. 18, 1846, Harriet 7 b. Dec. 17, 
1828. d. Sept. 11, 1840, Juliette 7 b. March 6, l!S31, Nathaniel B. 7 b. Oct. 
11, 1833, Caroline E. 7 b. Oct. 4, 1830, Betsey 7 b. Auic. 20, 1839. 

Edwakd D. 7, y. of Henry 6, b. 4)ee. 10, 1920, in. Adaline Bennett, b. 
Fell. 7, 1824; they had eh. David Henry 8 b. May 20, 1848, George Ed- 
ward 8 b. April 4, 1851, Arthur Lee 8 b. Aug. 14, 1853. Ella Jane 8 b. 
Sept. 7, 1856, d. June 10, 1879, Willie Wake b. June 26, 1801, Eflle M. 8 b. 
June 1, 1866, Martha G. 8 b. May 11, 1831, George Edward 8 b. A4)ril 4, 
1851, resides in Ansonia, Ct., m. May 8, 1872. Mary A. Duiidis, b. March 
4, 1853, tlu;y have two ch. Flora J. 9 b. July 0, 1875, and Mary E. 9 b. 
May 10, 1879; Alfred H. 7 b. April 10, 1823, B. of Henry 0, m. wid. Sarah 
(Jennings) Leek and has d. Amanda 8 b. July 29, 1854, who m. Daniel L. 
Yarriugton of Sag-Harbor; Juliette 7 dau. of Henx'y 6 b. March 0, 1831, 
m. George W. Schellenger, of Amagansett, m. 2d Jacob S. Strong and 
resides in Bridge-Hampton : Nathaniel B. 7 s. of Henry 6 b. Oct. 11, 
1833, m. Ijucinda A. dau. of James Tuthill, Dec. 16, 1860. b. Oct, 13, 1840 
and j(!sides in Eiist Marion," thev have four ch. Clarcsnce A, 8 b. Aug. 31, 
18()3, Willie T. 8 b. June 8, 1806, Cleora M. 8 b. Dec. 1, 1870, Bertie B. 8 b. 
July 23, 1872; Caroline E. 7 d. of Henry b. Oct. 4, 1836, m. Oapt. Grant 
(i. Backett, of East Marion, Dec. 27, 1857 ; Betsey 7 d. of Henry b. 
Aug. 20, 1839, m. Nathaniel H. Edwards of Amagansett; PheVte 6 dau. 
of Jacob 5 b. March 31, 4798, m. David Barnes of Amagansett ; Harriet 
d. of Jacob 5 b. March V^, 1802, m. 1st Nathaniel Barnes, ra. 2d David 
1*. Sherman of Amagansett; Clarissa d. of Jacob 5 b. March 12, 1802, 
m. Abraham Van Scoy, of NoTthwest, E. Hampton, and they had ch. 

Jacob G s. of Jacob 5 b. Sept. 30, 1805, m. Betsey d. of Daniel Baker, 
of Amagansett, April 29, 1829, b. April 8, 1806, d. Oct. 8, 1870, they had 
ch. Jeremiah 7 b. May 7, 1830, d. Nov. 10, 1840, Daniel Baker 7 b. Aug. 
23, 1833, Jacob Maxou 7 b May 1, 1839, Mary Elizabeth 7 b. Sept. 26, 
1841, m. Julius D. Parsons of Springs, L. I. Dec. 5, 1867, and they have 
ch. Henry Hedges 7 b. Feb. 10, 1851. 

Daniel B. 7 b. Aug. 23, 1833, m. Mary Ann d. of Jeremiah T. i'arsons 
of E. Hampton, Feb. 19, 1850, and they have ch. Adaline Elizabeth 8 b. 
Nov. 5, 1858, and Wilbur J. 8 and Mary A. 8 twins, b. Mavch 4, 1867, d. 
infants. 

Jacob Maxon 7 s. of Jacob 6, b. May 1, 1839, m. Georgia dau. of Sher. 
man Barnes, of Franklin, Delaware Co. N. Y. Oct. 20, 1878. 

Henby Hedges 7 s. of Jacob 6 m. Elizabeth dau. of Charles D. Par- 
sons, of Manchester, Ct. Dec. 24, 1872, they have ch. Anne 8 b. May 10, 
1875, Frank 8 b. March 10. 1878. 

Jonathan 4 s. of Jacob 3 had dau. Phebe 5 b. June 26, 1761, m. Jere- 
miah Barnes, of E. Hampton, and rem. to Plattsburgh, N. Y. ; also had 
s. Jonathan 5 b. April 27, 17t;3, who m. Jane dau. of Samuel Conklin, of 
Amagausett, Dec. 26, 1794; she d. Sept. 16, 1841; they had ch. Julia 6 b. 
Jan. 9, 1796, d. March 8, 1860, Hannah 6 b. Sept. 4, 1799, d. Oct. 29, 1825, 
Jonathan C. 6 b. Feb. 17, 1802, d. March 4, 1865, Eliza 6 b. Jan. 5, 1804. 
d. Nov. 2, 1804, William D. b. Sept. 10, 1806, d. abt. Sept. 10, 1834, Jer- 
emiah b. Dec. 11, 1808, d. June 13, 1871, Isaac b. April 29, 1811. 

Jonathan C. 6 Esq. s. of Jonathan 5 m. Mary Ann dau. of Abraham 
Payne, of Amagansett, she J. Nov. 6, 1843, they had ch. Mary Amelia 7 
b. May 20, 1841. 

WiiiLiAM D. s. of Jonathan 5 m. Jerusha Hedges, dau. of Daniel 



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Hedges, April 1833. was lost off the coast of Japan in ship Gov. Clinton, 
of Sag-Harbor, and all on board perished about Bept. 10, 1«34, he d. s. p. 

Jekkmiah 6 s. of Jonathan 5 m. 1st Althea H. dan. of Talmage Barnes 
of Amagansett, March 1833, she d. July 1830; he ni. '2d Mary L. dau. of 
Wm. Mulford of E. Hampton, b. Feb. G, 1819, ra. 1837, had ch. Win. D. 7 
b. Oct. 22, 1839, m. Emily dau. of Alausou Topping, of B. Hampton, 
Nov. 29, 18(34, and had one ch. Charles A. 8 b. Nov. 19, 1866; had dau. 
Althea Jane 7 b. Dec. 15. 1816, m. Edgar Haines of B. Hampton May 18, 
1870 and had s. E. Armoud 8. 

Isaac 6 s. of Jonathan 5 b. April 29, 1811, m. Betsey dau. of Mason 
Deuulson, of Deep River, Ct. Sept. 12, 1841, she b. Aug. 11, 1811, d. May 
9, 1875; they had ch. dau. 7 b. Dec. 18, 1842, d. Jan 29, 1843, and Isaac 
Deniiisou 7 and Jeremiah Mason 7, twins, b. May 6, 1844, both d. «. p. 
and Isaac 6 d. 

Samuel 5 s. of Jonathan 4 b. April 27, 1763, m. Betsey dau. of Sylves- 
ter Darby, of E. Hampton, b. 1774, d. March 1, 1849; they had ch. Mer- 
cy 6 b. Aug. 20, 1797, m. Wm. Baker, of E. Hampton, and they had ch. 
ElishebaGb. Nov. 13, 1799, d. March 8, 1871, she m. Capt. Howell H. 
Babcock, of Amagansott, and they had ch. Albeu D. 6 b. Oct. 10, 1806; 
Hannah Waters 6 b. Oct. 17, 1811, m. Capt. Maltby P. Cartwnght, of 
Shelter Island, May 26, 1833, and they have ch. Mary Ann 6 b. July 29, 
1817, m. Capt. Davis C. Miller, of Amagansett. 

Alben D. 6 m. Eliza G. dau. of Abraham Payne, of Amagansett, Jan. 
2, 1832, she b. March 16, 1812, %1. April 27, 1882, they had ch. Ellen 7 b. 
July 2, 1837, m. Abraham Parsons, of E. Hampton, Nov. 15, 1860, they 
had ch. George S. 7 b. April 12, 1845, m. Sarah E. dau. of Capt. Jesse 
Halsey, of Sag-Harbor, Nov. 25, 1867, and they had s. Oscar H. 8 b. Jan. 
24 1869, d. Oct. 18, 1877 ; Juliette 7 b. Feb. 17, 1853, m. Theodore Hand, 
of Amagansett, Nov. 27, 1879 ; Mercy 5 b. April 13, 1767. dau. of Jona- 
than 4, m. Matthew Jessup, of West-Hampton, L. I. Hannah 5 dau. of 
Jonathan 4 b. Sept. 3, 1768, m. Jeremiah Conkliug, of Amagansett, and 
rem. to Fort Ann, N. Y. Sylvester 5 s. of Jonathan 4 b. Sept. 3, 1785, 
m. Eunice Woodhull and resided and d. in Setauket, they had s. George 
W. 6 who m. Juliette 7 dau. of Henry Schellenger 6 b. March 6, 1831, 
and they had dau. Harriet W. 8 who resides in Bridge-H9,mpton. Geo. 
W. 6 d. March 19, 1851, ed 24 years, 5 months. 

THE SHEREILL FAMILY. 

CONTKlBUTEl) BY TEUNIS D. HTJNTTING, ESQ. 

The exact date of the arrival in America of Samuel SherrilJ 1, the an- 
cestor of the Bast-Hampton Sherrills, is unknown. He was a survivor 
from a shipwreck which took place on the coast off East-Hampton. 

Samuel Shekiull 1 b. in Ireland, of English parents, about 1649, d. 
at East-Hampton April 29, 1719. Note.— Nearly lifty years ago David 
Sherriil 5 s. of Eccompense 4 told me a company of young ladies visited 
the wreck. On returning, one of them said she had seen there the 
handsomest man she ever saw. Another young lady replied, "you 
might marry him." She said, "I do not know but I would if I could." 
This came to the knowledge of the wrecked mariner and resulted in 
th(> acquaintance and marriage of the parties. — H. P. Hedges. He m. 
a Miss Parsons abt. 1676 and they had two ch. Eecompence 2 b. about 
1678 and Elizabeth 2 who m. Hezekiah Miller. 

Eecompence 2 b. abt. 1678, m. 1st Nov. 10, 1701, Sarah Parsons, she 
d. Nov. 25, 1712: m 2d Oct. 1, 1713, ftlargarct Cady, and they had liec- 
ompcuce o b. 1716, Elizabeth 3 bap. April 5, 1719, m. Thomas Brown, 



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John 3 bap. April 5, 1719, rem to Southold, Houry o b. 1715, m. Nov. i, 
173G Jane Conklin, rem. to Bichmond. Mass., Sarah 3 bap. April 5,1719, 
m. John Parson?, Joanna 3 bap. April 5, 1719. m. Cornelius Paine, 
Elishaba 3 bap. April 5, 1719, Samuel 3 bap. Aug. 13, 1721, rem. to Duch- 
ess Co. N., Jeremiah 3 bap. Aug. 13, 1721, Jacob 3 b. 1722, Jemima 3 
bap. Sept. 19, 1725, m. William Earnes, Abraham 3 bap. Dec. 19, 1727. 

Recompence 3 b. 1706, d. Feb. 7, 1786, m. 1st Dec. 15, 1737 Sarah Leek 
shed. Nov. 5, 1738; m. 2d April 10, 1739, Puah dan. of John Parsons, 
they had ch. Kecompence 4 b. May 11, 1741, Puah 4 b. 1744, d. Aug. 1746. 
a son 4 b. 1749, d. an infant, Stephen 4 bap, July 20, 1751, drowned Juno 
22, 1788, Abraham 4 bap. April 2, 1754, a ch. 4 bap. Jan. 10, 1757, d, Aug. 

29, 1757, Sarah 4 bap. March 1759, Puah 4. 

Jeeemiah 3 bap. Aug. 13, 1721, drowned st sea, m. 1st Sept. 7, 1749, 
Kezia dau. of Isaac Barnes, Jr. she d. Dec. 2^, 1750; m. 2d Aug. 2, 1753 
Elizabeth dau. of John Dayton, and had ch. Jeremi;i.h 4 bap. Dec. 10, 
1750, d. Aug. 21, 1827, m. Euth dau. of Isaac M. Hunttiag, ho rem. in 
autumn of 1782 to Duchess Co. N. Y. 

Jacob 3 b. 1722, d. July 1801, m. 1st Aug. 11, 1746 Abigail dau. of Lewis 
Conklin, m. 2d about' 1760 Clemence dau. of Doa. John Huntting, and 
had ch. Abigail 4 bap. April 25, 1747, m. John Gann ; Samuel 4 bap. April 
16, 1748, d. young; Jeremiah 4 bap. Dec. 10, 1750, Abraham 4 bap. Jan. 
20, 1751, Daniel 4 bap. Aug. 1, 1753. liebecca 4 b. March 15. 1758, m. 
Fob. 7, 1781 Zachariah Hicks, John 4 bap. March 4, 17G2, d. young; 
Phebe 4 b. 1762, m. Peleg Miller; Mary 4 b. 1765, m. Levi Pierce; John 
Huntting 4 b. Aug. 28, 1767, m. Eunice Case and rem. to Vergennes, Vt. 
Jonathan 4 b. Oct. 1769, rem. to Greenville, N. Y. abt. 1810, Jacob 4 b. 
1770, d. in infancy, Jacob 4 b. Feb. 12, 1771, rem. about 1810 to New 
Hartford, N. Y., Samuel 4 b. abt. 1774, rem. to Oneida Co. N. Y. abt. 
1810, Nathaniel 4, Esther 4 b. 1779, m. Joseph Allen ; Lewis 4 b. June 

30, 1781, rem. to Oneida Co. N. Y. abt. 1810. 

Reoompenoe 4 b. May 11, 1741, d. June 7, 18?9, m. Sept. 22, 1708, Na- 
omi Burnham, and they had ch. Naomi 5 b. Aug. 14, 1769, m. Jesse 
Hedges, Seth 5 b. Jan. 0, 1771, rem. to Swautou, Vt,, David 5 b. DfC. 3, 
1772, Nathaniel 5 b. July 28, 1775, d. Aug. 2, 1775, Nathaniel 5 b. Sopt. 6, 
177C, rem. to Lysander, N. Y., Burnham 5 b. Aug. 17, 1779, drowned 
Oct. 11, 1811 unm., Elizabeth 5 b. Feb. 23. 1783, m. Charles H. Havens, 
Sally 5 b. Sept. 8, 1785, drowned May 7, 1786. 

Abbaham 4 bap. April 2, 1754, d. Nov, 18, 1844, m. April 27, 1800 Anna 
dau. of Nathaniel Huntting, and they had ch. Stephen 5 b. April 2, 1801, 
Abram P. 5 b. Sept, 3, 1803, rom. to Western N. Y. 1844, Nathaniel H. 5 
b. Oct. 10, 1806, rom. to LeEoy, N. Y. 

Jekemiah 4 bap. Dec. 10, 1750, d. Jan. 14, 1840, at Frautlin, N. Y., he 

m. Elizabeth Hand and they had ch. Vashti 5 who m. Edwards, of 

Franklin, N. Y., Darius 5 b. 1781, d. Nov. 17. 1848, he rem. to Sandy Hill, 
N. Y. 1792. Meliuda 5 b. Jan. 18, 1786, m. Silas Webb, of Orient, N. Y., 
Abigail 5 b. March 22, 1790, she m. 1st Elisha Rackett, 2d Wm. Potter, 
Joanette 5 who m. 1st Amos Ryan, of East Marion, N. Y., m. 2d Ebenc- 
zer Welden, of Greeuport, N. Y., Jeremiah 5 b. Oct. 7, 1799, rom. about 
1810 to New Hartford, N. Y., Caroline 5 d. abt. 1817, Charles 5 b. Feb. 9, 
1804, d. July 12, 1871, rem. to Eiist Marion, N. Y. about 1817. 

Abkaham 4 bap. Jan. 20, 1751, d. April 11, 1834, m. Mahetable Terry, 
and had dau. Esther 5 b. Jan. 4, 1806, m. Giles S. Havens, she d. Feb. 
25, 1886. 

Daniel 4 bap. Aug. 1, 1753, and had ch. Phebe 5 d. Feb. 4, 1778, Mary 
5 who m. Sherrill Conklin, Elizabeth 5 b. Jan. 8, 1797. in. Charles R. 
Uaud, a son 5 left E. H. young, uuiu. 



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David 5 b. Doc. 3, 1772, d. Nov. 11, 1861, m. Bally Lupton, and had s. 
Hiram L. G b. Nov. 24, 1810. 

Stephen 5 b. April 2, 1801, d. Dec. 26. 1892, m. Doc. 26, 1827 Jorusha 
H. daii, of Elisha Conklia, and thev had ch. Egbert C. 6 b. Sept. 21, 1829, 
d. April 5, 1HG5 num., Nathaniel H. 6 b. Aug. 3, 18.32, Abraham E. 6 b. 
March 5, 1834, d. in service of his country whilo a member of the 105th 
Reg. 111. Vol. at Gallatin, Tes. March 2, 1863, Stephen H. 6 Dec. 29, 1849. 
rem. to Conn. abt. 18G7. 

HiKAM L. 6 b. Nov. 24, 1810, m. Nov. 3, 1834, Adeline dau.of Sylvanus 
S. Miller, and had ch. Sarah F. 7 b, April 24, 1836, d. April 25, 1895, she 
m. Chas. R. Dayton. David S. 7 b. Oct. 11, 1842, Hiram 7 b. Apr. 16, 1853. 

Nathaniel H. G b. Aug. 3, 1832, d. Juno 5, 1874, m. June 16, 1859 Ade- 
lia A. Parsons, and thoy had ch. Anna M. 7 b. June 16, 18G0, Abraham 
E. 7 b. Oct. 14, 1SG2, Mary J. 7 b. April 7, 18G5, m. July 2G, 1888 Herbert 
L. Bates, Julia P. 7 b. Jan. 30, 1868, m. Juno 25, 1889 Wm. H. Hedges, 
Amy B. 7 b. Jan. 11, 1871, William H. 7 b. Feb. 7, 1874. d. Sept. 27, 1874. 

David S. 7 b. Oct. 11, 1842, m. March 3, 1868 Rosalie H. dau. of Ed- 
ward Dayton. He is a promincjnt Republican. Has held the offleo of 
Superintendent of the County Poor for many years. No ch. 

HiKAM 7 b. April 16. 18.53, m. l.st Anastasia Williams ; sho d. Dec. 14, 
1888 ; m. 2d Jan. 12, 1893, Sophronia Douglass, and has ch. a son 8 b. 
March 12, 1882, d. same day, Florence E. 8 b. July 14, 1884, Adeline M. 8 
b. Sept. 13, 1886. * 

Abraham E. 7 b. Oct. 14, 1862, m. Nov. 19, 1890 Nettle J. Glover, and 
has 3. Edwin L. 7 b. Sept. 3, 1891. 

THE SQUIRES FAMILY. 

At an early day a John Squires in East-Kampton married Ann dau. of 
William Edwards 1. George R. Howell assumes that they had son 
George 2, and gives the following genealogy of the family : 

John 1 m. Ann dau. of Wm. Edwards and had son George 2. George 
2 m. Jan. 29, 1701 Jane Edwards, and had ch. John 3 b. about 1703, Rec- 
ompenco 3 bap. 1705, Thomas 3 bap. 1705. who m. May 26, 1726 Puah 
Ludlam and rem. to N. J. ' 

John 3 d. Jan. 7, 1758, a3 55, had w. Phebe and ch. John 4 bap. 1715 
Ellis 4 bap. 1719, Henry 4 bap. 1722, Phebe 4 bap. 1724, Mary 4 bap. 1729! 
Zerviah 4 bap. 1731, Jeremiah 4 bap. 1733, Stephen 4 bap. 1735, Jona- 
than 4 bap. 1738, John 4 bap. 1739 ; Ellis 4 removed into the western 
part of Southampton and had ch. Scth 5, Ellis 5, Daniel 5. From those 
descended the numerous families in Squiretown, Good Ground and its 
vicinity. 

Jonathan 4 bap. 1738, resided in tho dwelling house at Wainscott 
(now of James H. Topping) where his lather and probably grandfather 
resided. Many grave stones in Wainscott prove this. Jonathan 4 was 
said to bo a man of great strength. Tradition roi)orts that ho had 
green oak rails on his shoulder and slipping on tho ico broke his log ; 
that he crawled into tho house, got on the bed. and set his broken leg,' 
refusing the services of the doctor who afterwards came. He had ch! 
Stafford 5, Ellis 5, John 5 b. abt. 1783, Stephen 5, Sylvanus 5, Henry 5, 
Mehetable 5, Mary 5, Phebe 5. Stephen 5 resided in Sag-Harbor, Sylva- 
nus 5 noar Hay Ground, and both had w. and ch. 

THE STR.-iTTON FAMILY. 

That veteran gouoaiogist, George R. Howell, traces tho Stratton fam- 
ily thus : 

John 1 of England, Richard 2 and wife Elizabeth, Benjamin 3 d. In 



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1717, and wife Mary, of N. Jersey, Jonathan 4 bap. 1708, Benjamin 5, 
Jonathan 6 b. 177y, w. Mary Dayton, Henry D. 7 b. 1803, George N. 7, 
Jenathan D. 7, Mary 7 b. 1807, ch. -.f Henry D. 7, Samuel D. 8, Theo- 
dore 8, Catherine 8, George M. 9, Mary L. 9. 

John 1 ; John 2 d. in E. Hampton 1685 ; Stephen 3 b. 1675, d. 1697, w. 
Hannah; John 4 d. in 16/5; Stephen 5 bap. in 1721 ; Samuel 5 of East- 
Hampton d. in 1845 ; Sidney 6, Anna 6, Esther 6, Mary 6, Sarah 6, Caro- 
line 6, Samuel T. 6 of Montauk, ch. of Samuel T. 6, Frank S. 7, Isabel 7, 
Frank 7, Gloriana 7. 

THE TALMAGE OF TALLMADGE FAMILY. 

BY JAMES M. B. DWIGHT, OP NEW HAVEN, CONN. 

This family name has been variously written in different ages, Tal- 
mage, Tallmadge, Talmash, Talmacke, Tollemache, and in several 
other ways. 

The family is one of the most ancient in English history, and is tra- 
ditionally believed, says Burke, to go back to Saxon times to Toelmag, 
a Saxon Lord of the Cth century of our era. 

The name is found as Toelmag in Domesday Book, time of William 
the Conqueror, and also on the Koll of Battle Abbey of the same cen- 
tury in the Norman form ToUemache. It is found at Stoke Talmage in 
Oxfordshire in 1135; in Norfolk in 1200; in Suffolk at a very early date, 
and in Hampshire soon after 1300. The seat of the family in Hamp- 
shire was at Newton Stacey, an outlying manor of Barton Stacey, in 
the County of Hampshire or Southampton, and about ten miles north- 
west of Winchester, where the family had been long settled. 

In respect to the early history of the American family of Talmage or 
Tallmadge, 1 would say that historical writers have made numerous 
mistakes and given a most confused and incoirect account of the mat- 
ter. The principal autnority is "Tiiompson's History of Long Island," 
whose statement found in several parts of the volume are confused, 
misleading and contrcxdictory of each other. They are probably deriv- 
ed from some aged member of the family who has mixed up his gener- 
ations, as so often happens. 

For example, Thompson says, p. 297, "Thomas Talmage, Jr., (known 
as the liecorder, or Town Clerk, of East-Hampton) was the son of Enos 
Talmage, of New Haven, who ii is supposed died here. Thomas Tal- 
mage, brother of Enos, made freeman of Boston 1634, and of Lynn 1636, 
settled at Branlord, in Connecticut, whence he removed, and died at 
New Haven." 

On another page he say,' , "Thomas, Jr., son of Enos, had brothers 
Enos, Thomas and Daniel, which last removed to New Jersey in 1725." 

The real fact was that these three were graudsons of Thomas, Jr., 
the Eecorder, and great-grandsons of Thomas, Sr., of Lynn, who was 
the first of the name in Southampton and East-Hampton. 

To the New Jersey branch of the family, descendants of Daniel above 
mentioned, belong the Be v. Dr. T. DeWitt Talmage, his brother tlie 
Kev. Toyn Talmage, and Daniel L'almage and sons, of Brooklyn. This 
branch of the Talmages has intermarried with the VanNest and Beek- 
man families. 

Enos was not one of the emigrants from England. These wore Wil- 
liam of Boston, Thomas of Lynn and afterwards of Southampton and 
East-Hampton, and Kobert of New Haven, three brothers, liobert of 
New Haven had a sou Enos, who was killed by the Indiaus in the mas- 
sacre at Schonecta.iy, and a 2d Enos, who appears in ttie above con- 
fused accounts of Thompson as one of the original emigrants, was leal- 



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ly, in all probability, a grandson of Thomas, the Recorder, and a grea 
grandson ot Thomas Talmage, Senior, of Lynn and East-Hampton. He 
appears in the Town Eecords of East-Hampton in 1717 and 1721. 

Judge Hedges, in his address of 184!), seems to have followed the 
same authority and been led by him into the same mistakes, which are 
refuted by the Town Records of Southampton and East-Hampton. 

These unfortunate errors make it important to state correctly the 
true beginnings of the Talmage family in America, the evidence of 
which has only recently come to light, and which places the matter be- 
yond further doubt or uncertainty. 

Thomas Lechford was an English lawyer who came to Boston in 1G38 
and returned to England in 1G41. He was the first practising lawyer 
in Massachusetts. He kept a note-book of legal memoranda which has 
been recently printed, in which occurs the following entry, p. 294, old 
167: "William Talmage of Boston, in New England,' Tliomas Talmage 
Robert raln.age, and Richard Walker, husband of Jane T;: Image de- 
ceased, sonnes and daughter of Thomas Talmage, brother of John Tal- 
mage, of Newton Stacey, in the Co. of Southampton, deceased, make a 
letter of Attorney to Richard Conying and William Dowlying, overseers 
of the will of the said John Talmage, deceased, to receive of the Exec- 
utor and administrator of the last will and testament of Symon Talmage 
our brother and of John Talmage aforesaid, the summes of money due 
unto us by the will of the said John Talmage (and a certificate under 
the public seal (l. s.) )" 

Page 311 new, old 175 : "A letter of attorney by William Talmage 
Thomas Talmage and Robert Talmage aforesaid, and Richard Walker 
to Mr. Ralph King, to receive the money of the said overseer. Dated 
3 Sept. 164U. (A certificate made under the public seal (l. s.) ) 

These memoranda show conclusively that there were three brothers 
Talmage who came to America— William, Thomas and Robert— and a 
sister Jane, who married Ricnard Walker, of Lynn. These came from 
England to New England in 1630, and no others are known to have 
come to America in the Colonial period. 

The record also establishes the fact that they were children of Thom- 
as Talmage, of Newton Stacey, in the County of Southampton or Hamp- 
shire, England. It also proves that they had an uncle, John Talmage 
who left each of them legacies in his will, and also a brother, Symon 
Talmage, who also mentioned them in his will and referred to these 
legacies. These three brothers and sister's husband gave a power of 
attorney to Ralph King to receive this money. 

We thus obtain the names of the three founders of the Talmage name 
and family in America. We learn their residence In England and learn 
ot the wills of uncle and brother there. 

Luring the last year, 1895, I have bad these wills searched for and 
tound in England, and obtain from them the names of the legatees 
above mentioned, who are the three Talmage brothers and their sister 
Jane. 

This power of attorney and th.se English wills are thus dovetailed 
together and establish the fact of the English origin and former home 
ol tliese brothers beyond question. 

I have also further traced the family descent through wills and sub- 
sidies to an earlier Robert Talmash, whose will is dated 1523 and who 
must liave been born before 1500. Still more recent advices carry the 
iiV"';:, '.''ickward nearly to 1300, where at the head of the line stands 
Sir William Talmach. We find in the Suffolk line a Sir William Talia- 
mach of the same date (see Collins' Peerage). We have reason to bo- 



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lieve that these two are one and the same, and that the Suffolk and 
Hampshire line of tlie family are united here. 

The elder of the three Talmage brothers, William, settled in Boston, 
and died leaving only daughters. 

The second brother, Thomas Talmage, settled in Lynn, Mass. He 
was admitted freeman in Boston in 1634, and was allotted there 200 
acres of laud, which shows that he was a man of substance. [See 
Lewis' History of Lynn, p. 114 : "The Council had agreed that each 
person Avho had advanced fifty pounds should have 200 acres, and that 
each person Avho came over on liis own expense should have 50 acres.] 

He thus became one of the largest landholders in the town. He re- 
moved to Southampton, Long Island, in 1G42, and joined the colony 
from Lynn which settled there and in 1G49 he removed to East-Hamp- 
ton with his son Thomas Talmage, Junior, who became the first Recor- 
der, or Town Clerk of the Town. The Long Island and New Jersey 
branches of the family are descended from Thomas Talmage, Sr., and 
his son, Thomas Talmage, Jr., the Recorder, also known as Captain 
Thomas Talmage. Thomas Talmage, Senior, died soon after coming 
to East-Hampton in 1653. Thomas Talmage, Junior, was a man of ed- 
ucation, with a scholarly and elegant handwriting, which resembles 
that still taught at the famous school at Manchester, so near his Eng- 
lish birtb-place. May he not have been a pupil of this famous school? 
He was a man of much prominence in the early history of the town, 
and, says Judge Hedges, "the records show that at his death in 1690 
he was the richest man in East-Hampton." 

Robert Talmage, the youngest of these three brothers, probably came 
with Thomas Talmage to Southampton in 1642, and when his brother 
left there, himself removed to Connecticut, and settled at New Haven in 
1643, where he married, and died in 1662, leaving also a considerable 
estate, which is now in the business centre of the city, (corner Chapel 
and State streets) and of great value. 

From him all of the name in Connecticut are descended, and also a 
numerous body of his descendants is found in New-York, City ai:d State. 
The Connecticut and New-Yoik branch of the family has produced 
many men of distinction in public life, and in the service of the coun- 
try. Among them we find Hon. John Tallmadge, for many j^ears elected 
to the General Assembly of Connecticut; hib brother Colonel Benjamin 
Tallmadge, of Revolutionary fame, the friend of Washington, and now 
represented by his grandson, Erederick S. Tallmadge, President of the 
Society of the Sous of the Revolution. We find many distinguished 
Judges of the higher Courts of the several States and of the United 
States, others noted as Governors and Lieutenant-Governors of States, 
and as Senators and Representatives in the National Congress. This 
branch of the family has intermarried with many of the first families 
of the country, and has much wealth and social lirominence. Among 
noted families thus connected with it may be named that of Governor 
Yale, tbe founder of Yale CoUogcj, that of Governor George Clinton, 
Vice-President of the United States, the Lewis family, the Burnetts, 
the Vanllensselaers, the Hookers, the Dwights, the Pomeroys, the Del- 
afields and the Eloyds. It lias also been connected with families of 
distinction both in France and England. 

The genealogy of the East-Hampton and New Jersey branch of the 
family will be given by another baud. 

The spelling of the name in America, as in England, has gone through 
several variations. The Talmages of East-Hampton and New Jersey 
spell the name Talmage, as it is spoiled by Lechford, though Thomas 



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Tiiliuagc, tho Eccoider, their ancestor for many years spell ItTallmagc 
and sometimes without tho o at tho end, which shows that he pro- 
nounced it Tali-ma^' (j; soft). 

Tlio Connecticut Tallmadi^os, and those of New-York, descendants of 
Robert Tallmage have from the be^innini,' spelled the name Avith a d 
and written it as it was spelled in the will of the English Uncle John 
Tallnuulg, who left to the three brothers tho legacies before mentioned 
as stated in Lechford's note book. 

In Lewis' History of Lynn the name is spelled both ways, which 
shows tiuit Thoma.s Tallmag also spelled his name Tallmadge. Thus 
both spellings are of equal authority and antiquity in America, and 
both are found in England at a much earlier period long before the em- 
igration. There is one point also important to observe, viz : that the 
ancient names of the family— Talmago, Tallmadge, Talmash, Talmache, 
Tollemache— are used interchangeably ; one ancestor using one form, 
his son another, and the same using different forms at different times. 
This shows that whatever tho spelling they really were pronounced 
alike. This proves that the name was never pronounced Talniage ap 
we do now with a short a in the first syllable and a long a in the second 
syllable, but that it wi.s pronounced with the first a as in tall and tho 
second a as in lad ; so that the spelling Tall-madge exactly repr<!sents 
its ancient sound and was no doubt adopted to indicate and preserve 
this. And ti is is made still more evident by giving the g its sound in 
Norman French of zh, which makes Talmage, Tallmadge and Tollmacho 
practically identical in sound. 

The ancient name is represented by two titles in the Peerage of Eng- 
land, that of the Earls of Dysart who have spelled the name Talmash, 
and that of Lord Tollemache who holds the ancient seat and lands of 
tho family at Helmingham Hall, in Suffolk. 

NEW JEESEY BEANCH OF THE TALMAGE FAMILY. 

COMFIIiED BY ROBERT S. TALMAGE, OF BROOKLN, N. Y. 

In the year 1649, Thomas Talmadgc, Jr., with eight others, commenced 
tho first settlement of East-Hampton, under the original contract. He 
had removed from Southampton, where his father Thomas Tahuadge had 
settled, early in the year 1()42. Later on Thomas Talmadge, Sr.. is said 
to have joined the East-Hampton colony and then died. 

Oct. 3, 1C50, Thomas Talmadge was chosen first Eecorder. and con- 
tinued in that oflice for twenty years. From the Records of East- 
Hampton we find he was appointed a Lieutenant in 16(55. His death 
occurred 1690. Issue : Thomas, Nathaniel, John and Euos. 

(3) Enos C. 1660 at East-Hampton, d. 1753 ; issuo : Thomas d. s. p., 
Euos and Daniel. 

(4) Daniel b. East-Hampton, 1693, d. Elizabethtown, N. J. 1725. He 
was tho progenitor of the New Jersey branch of the Talmage family; 
issue: Daniel Thomas. , 

(5) Thomas ^alnuige was 0. Elizabethtown, N. J., 1722; m. 1st 
Hannah Norris and hud by her Daniel, John and Enos. 

(6) Daniel b. Elizabethtown, N. J., 1745. m. Loisa, daughter of Job 
Allen His name is found among those pledged to support the Congress. 
1776. Fell in the battle of Lackawaxen, 1779. 

(5) Thomas m. 2d Elizabeth Week, of East-Hampton : issuo Thomas. 

(6) Major Thomas Talmage S. Baskingridge, N. J. Oct. 24, 1755, m. 
Mary, daughter of Capt. Goyn McCoy. Tarticipated in principle battles 
of New Jersey during the E-svolution. Major Talmago d. at his estate 



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"Mont Veid," near Somervillc, N. J., Oct. 2,1834: issue David T., 
Thomas, Samuel K., Goyn. 

(7) David T. b. Soniorville, N. J.. 17.'-3. Member of the Now Jersey 
lejrislature tJin-e successive terms, d. 18()5. m. Catherine Van Nest ; 
issue : Kev. Jnmes, Daniel, Kev. John Van Nest, Ivev. Goyn and Kev. 
Thomas DeWitt. 

(7) Goyn b. Fonierville, N. J., 1778, m. Magdalene Terhune: issue: 
Thomas G. 

(8) Thomas G. b., SomorviJlc, 1801; Member of the New-York Coun- 
cil from 1838 to 40, and President of the Board of Alderman of New- 
York City. Elected Mayor of Brooklyn 1845, later appointed Judge of 
the County court. 

(7) Eev. Samuel Kennedy b. 1798, Somerville N. J. Removed to 
Georgia and became Pres. of Oglethorp University. Made the opening 
prayer in the Confederate Congress at Eichmond, 18G1, 

The L.ame Talmage in the states of New Jersey and New-York is as- 
sociated with uistinction among the oai'lier settlers. Alliances by 
marriage have been made with the following families. Norris. DeFor- 
est. Van Nest, Jeralemon, Van Brunt, Beekman, Van Veghten, Hunt, 
Van Syckel, Mayo, Shufeldt avd Dodge. 

GENEALOGY OF THE TALMAGE F A.MILY. 

Compiled with great Labor and Persevernnce by Sineus C. M. Talmage, 
of East-Hampton. 
From hietory, and the best' information I can gather, the Talmage 
family came from England to Boston, Mass., in 1630. 

Thomas Talmage 1 of Boston had land granted in Southampton, L. 
I. Oct. 1042, d. 1G5?, had ch. Thomas 2 and Robert 2. 

Thomas 2, one of the first purchasers of East-Hampton, L. I. d. about 
1090, had w. Elizabeth and ch. Nathaniel 3 b. 1644, d. 1716, Thom- 
as 3, Shubaol 3 b. 1656 or 7, d. 1742, Onesimus 3 b. 1662, d. 1723, Sarah 3 
Mary 3, Naomi 3, Hannah 3 and John 3 b. It79, d. 1764. 
Nathaniel 3 had ch. Naomi 4 bap. 1701 and Thomas 4. 
Thomas 3 had ch. Mary 4 bap. 1607, Temperance 4 bap. 1710, Abigail 
4 bap. 1712 and Thomas 4 bap. 1722, Thomas 4. 
Shubael 3, according to ti-adition, had no family. 
Onesimus 3 had w. Eebekah and ch. Sarah 4, Mary 4, Phobe 4 and 
Thomas 4, all bap. 1717. Thomas 4 d. s. p. 1722 ee about 20 years. 

Phebe 4 d. of Onesimus Talmage 3 and w. of Severus Gould, had son 
Patrick Arter 5, who had s. Patrick T. 6, who had s. Jonathan T. 7 who 
has the Talmage coat of arms. 

John 3 m. 1st Dec. 25, 1702 Experience Miller, and 2d w. Ann, and 
had ch. Elizabeth 4 bap. 1703, John 4 bap. 1707, Experience 4 bap. 1708, 
Jeremiah 4 bap. 1710, Nathaniel 4 bap. 1711, Josiah 4 bap. 1713, Joseph 
4 bap. 1715, Daniel 4 bap. 1716, Eeb' cca 4 bap. 1718, Abigail 4 bap. 1720, 
Margery 4 baj). 1722, Martha 4 bap. 1723, Euos 4 bap. 1725, Hannah 4 
bap. 1727, Martha 4 bap. 1729, David 4 bap. 1731, Anne 4 bap. 1735, and 
Eachel 4 bap. 1737. 

Nathaniel 4 d. 178 5, m. Mary Fithian, b. 1715, d. 1789, had ch. Abra- 
ham 5 and Nathaniel 5 bap. 1738, d. 1757, David 5 (Deacon) b. 1740, d. 
1814, Mary 5 bap. 1743, Esther 5 bap. 1745, Lucretia 5 bap. 1752, Phebe 5 
b. 1752, w. of Jonathan Barnes. 

Daniel 4 rem to Bridge-Ham pt(m, had ch. Ehoda5 b. July 17, 1744, 
Experience 5 b. Sept. 3, 1747, Euth 5 b. Nov. 13, 1749, Daniel 5 b. Apr. 
23, 1752, Joseph 5 b. Sept. 22, 1754, and Stephen 5 b. Oct. 19, 1759. 



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Stephen 5 bad ch. Daniel 6, b. July 22, 1784, cl. Oct. 3, 1858, Stephen 
(j and Mohitable. 

Daniki. C. m. Apr. 22, ISIO, Susanna Mayo, b. Aup. 23, 1785, d. Feb. 16, 
1M5S, had ch. Stephen Snniord 7 b. Sept. 4, 1813, d. Mary Avery 7 b. Oct. 
13, 1815, d. Mar. 21, 1S17, Mary Ann 7 b. May 19, 1818, d. May 5, 1874, 
George Washington 7 b. July 18, 1820, d. Aug. 7. following, Geo. Wash- 
ington 7 b. July 31, 1821, d. July 11, 18%, IsaacNewton7 b. May 7. 1823, 
drowned off Cape Horn, May 31, 1853, John Miltoc 7 b. Apr. 5, 1825, d. 
at San Francisco Aug. 8, 1850, Betsy Susanna M. 7 b. Sept. 20, 1829, and 
Phebe Sanford 7, w. of Capt. Geo. Goodall, b. Mar. 29, 1832, d. at Illi- 
nois July 2(1. 1856. 

Geokge Washington 7 m. 1st, June 8, 1847. Mary Frances Bill b. 
Aug. 2G, 1829, d. Nov. 8, 1868, had ch. Frances Jane 8. b. Sept. 6, 1849, 
Geo. Washington 8 b. May 27, 1851, d. Nov. 24, 18G9, Daniel Webster 8 
b. Nov. 10, 1854, Hoiu-y Snymour 8 b. Jaly2'J, 185S, .ui-l DeWifct Clinton 
8 b. June 23, 1861. Geo. Washington 7 m. 2nd w. Mary Howard Nov. 17, 
1869, who died Sept. 9. 1888, m. 3rd w. Jane Wheeler Oct. 1889. 

David 4 d. 1808, had w. Lydia Piiie andch. Lois 5 bap. 1761, Henry 5 
bap. 1763, David 5 bap. 1765, William 5 bap. 1768, Lydia 5 bap. 1773, and 
John 5 bap. 1778. 

David 5 (Deacon) d. 1822, m 1st Mary Parsons b. 1765, d. 1796, had 1 
ch Baldwin Cook 6 b. 1792, m. 2iid w. Pliebe Edwards, had ch. Mary 6 
and David 6 (twins) b. Aug. 27, 1799, David 6 d. Sept. 1799, Phebe 6 b. 
Dec 16 1800, d. Aug. 1801, Phebe E. 6 b. Sept. 13 1802, Anne 6 b. Mar, 31, 
1804. d. s. p. 1825, David 6b. Jan. 23, 1806, Jonathan 6 b. Dec. 3. 1808, 
and Nathaniel 6 b. Jan. 3, 1810, d. Sp. 1830, all now deceased except 
David 6 who is still living at the extreme age of 91 yrs. 

David 6 m. 1st w. Mary Ann Miller b. Oct. 30, 1811, hadch. Nathaniel 
Miller 7 b. Mar. 1, 18.34, David Egbert 7 b. Apr. 1, 1836, Henry Clay 7 b. 
Dec. 5, 1844, and William Lionel 7 b. July 23, 1849, David 6 m. 2nd w. 
widow Julia Ann Miller, deceased. 

Nathaniel Millee 7 m. Mary Eaynor, had ch. Annie 8, Henry 8 and 
Carrie 8. 

David Egbekt 7 m. Isabel Miller b. Apr. 14, 1841, had ch. William E. 
8, b. Nov. 26, 1869, and Mary Elizabeth 8 b. Nov. 17, 1874. 

Henkx Clay 7 m. had 2 ch. 

William Lionel 7 m. Louisa Mc. Cue has 3 ch. 

Baldwin Cook 6 (Deacon.) d. Oct. 26, 1859, m. Hannah Miller b. Apr. 
15, 1791. d. Apr. 5. 1862, had ch. David 7 b. July 23, 1822, d. in infancy, 
Mary Conklin 7 b. Mar. 26, 1824, w. of Nathan Dimon d. aged abt. 21 
yrs. David Baldwin 7 b. Apr. 14, 1826, d. in infancy and Sineus C. M. 7 
b. Dec. 5, 1828. 

Sineus C. M. 7 Elder of First Presbyterian Church of East-Hampton, 
L. I. m. 1st Hannah Lester who d. May 25, 18S8, had ch. Catherine 
Maria 8 b. June 29, 1851, Mary Emmeline 8,b. Apr. 23, 1853, David Amasa 
8 b. Feb. 19, 1855, Fannie Elizabeth 8 b. Jan. 22, 1857, Lois 8 b. Dec. 19, 
1858, Baldwin Cook 8 b. Feb. 5, 1861, Sineus C. M. 8 b. Oct. 28, 1862, 
Nathaniel Edgar 8 b. Jan. 29 1865, Lannah Hand Lester 8 b. Mar. 24, 
1867, Phebe Jane 8 b. Sept. 4, 1869, and Josiah Oscar 8 b. Jan. 20, 1872, 
Sineus C. M. 7 m. 2ud w. Grace Kedfleld Dec. 23, 1892. 

JEKEMIAH 4 d. 1773, m. in 1727 Damaris Hand, who d. 1759, had ch. 3 
daus. who d. in infancy in 1738, 40, 45. ands. Jeremiah 5 bap. 1744, d. in 
1791. 

JEKEMIAH 5, had w. who d. in 1784, and ch. Piiebc 6, bap. 1770, Eliza- 
beth 6, bap. 1771 W. of Ephraim Edwards, dau. bap. 1772, dau. bap, 1773, 



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one of them being Temperance 6, w. of Silas Wood and Jeremiah G, 
bap. in 1776. 

Jekemiah 6 d. Dec. 27th, 1817, had w. Mary who d. April 28th, 1839, 
80 Gl yrs. and they had ch. Betsey P. 7, b. 1807, d. unm. May 2. 1S70, 
Mary 7, b. 1810. w. of Thomas M. Cleaves, d. Oct. 1st, 1888, and had dau. 
Mary 8, w. of Edmund 3 Strong, Jeremiah 7. d. unm. Jason 7, d, unm. 
Ezra 7, Timothy 7, Harvey 7, The last three married and left ch. the last 
two resided in Greenpoint or Brooklyn, N. Y. 

FAMILY OP VAN SCOY. 

CONTKIBUTED BX HENKY L. VAN SCoY. 

With the first settlers who came to New Netherlands, now New-York, 
were three brothers, Abraham, Peter and Isaac Van Schaick. Abraham 
located in Albany, Peter on the Hudson River near Hudson City, Isaac 
in or about the town of Oyster Bay, on Long Island. I find no account 
of their children. There is a family tradition that Cornelius Van Scoy 
grandson of Isaac, came to East-Hampton, and in Oct. 1727, m. Patience, 
dau. of Isaac Barnes, of Amagansett, (son of Joshua, one of the first 
settlers) who was b. in 1707, and had brother Isaac, Esq., as per Town 
Record. This Cornelius and w. in 1737 removed to N. Salem, West- 
chester Co., N. Y. with 3 or 4 children, leaving one Isaac, then about 5 
yrs. old, with Isaac Barnes, Esq, 

Isaac Van Scoy 1 b. April 1732, in Feb. 1757 m. Mary, dau. of David 
Edwards, of E. H. and soon settled in Northwest, E. H. whore she d. 
in 1782, and he in 1817. They were plundered and suffered much from 
the British in the Revolutionary war. They had 15 ch. of whom 7 died 
in infancy ; sis daughters and two sons lived long lives. After the 
death of his first wife Isaac 11 m. Elizabeth wid. of Jonathan Osborn, 
who was a Dibble, b. in 1727, d. in 1822. She had by her 1st husband 5 
sons, Joseph, Jonathan, Henry, Daniel and Samuel, but no ch. by her 
second husband. The ch. of Isaac 1 and Mercy were : Isaac b. 
1758, (m. Temperance Payne) and d. in 1846, and had ch. Mercy 3, Phebe 

3, Isaac Sylvester 3, Arnold 3, and Betsey 3,. Mercy 3, m. Havens 

and had 4 ch., Phebe b. Feb. 15, 178S, d. unmarried without issue. 

Isaac S. 3 b. Sept. 5, 1790, d. Dec. 24, 1846, m. 1st. Charlotte Parsons, 
who d. Oct. 19, 1838, they had dau. Charlotte 4, b. Feb. 11, 1831, m. 
Samuel G. Mulford and have ch. Isaac S- 3, m. 2nd. Mary Mulford who 
d. Aug. 17, 1890, SB 86, without issue. 

Aenold 3, b. Sept. 19, 1793, d. Aug. 18, 1857, had w . Mary Parker b, 
Jan. 19, 1789, d. Oct. 25, 1867, they had ch. Mariette 4, b. May 29, 1818, 
Charles 4, b. Nov. 27, 1820, d. Aug. 4, 1822. Charles 4, b. Dec. 30, 1823, 
d. June 8, 1867, Isaac 4, b. Aug. 30, 1827, d. Aug. 1880, Charles 4, m. 
Mary G. Johnson and d. S. P. ; Mariette 4, m. P. Parker King and had 
ch. Mary 5, Eleanor 5, Charles 5, Clarence 5, Harriet 5, and CtiarlotteS. 
Isaac 4, m. Elizabeth Harkness and thej had ch. Frederic 5, Mary 5. 
Florence 5, and Lillian 5. 

Mekoy 2, m. John Edwards of Sag-Harbor and had ch. Russell 3, 
Patience 3, Isaac 3, John 3, Abraham 3, she d, aj between 70 and 80 yrs. 
Elizabeth 2, b. 1759, m. Jeremiau Bennett, and d. in 1858, had ch. Abra- 
ham 3. Augustus 3, Betsey 3, Roxanna 3, Cynthia 3, Fanny 3, Nancy 3, 
Phebe 3, Miller 3, and Jeremiah Parker 3, Patience 2. m. John Payne 
merchant of North Haven and had ch. Charles Watson 3. Mercy 3, Clai-a 
3, Lucretia 3, John 3, Silas 3, Betsey 3, Phebe 3, and Timothy 3, Elsie 2, 
m. John Edwards of Amagansett and had ch. Nancy 3, Joseph 3, Re- 
becca 3, and John Dudley 3, Elsie 2, d, Sept. 17th, 1838 sn 73 yrs. Me- 
betable 2, m. Jonathan Osborn and had ch. Polly 3, Harvey 3, Jonathan 



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3, Mulford 3, Abraham 3, Isaac S Van Scoy 3, and Betsey 3, Mehetable 
d. ro 79 yrs. 

David 2, b. March 9, 1765, d. Feb. 2, 1854, M. Hannah d. of Stephen 
Burnett2 son of Ephraim, she d. Sept. 28, 1764, d. July 4, 1860, m. Feb. 7 
1793, they liad 7 ch. of whom 3 d. infants, Abraham 3, David Burnett 3, 
Jacob Austin 3, and Hannah Burnett 3. , 

David 2, was generally known as Captain and sometimes Deacon. 
He and his ife lived together in wcalock 61 years less ten days. 

Polly 2 TO. Dering Ranger, she d. Feb. 12, 1833. se 05; they had ch. 
Stephen 3. Sylvester 3 and Alfred 3. 

Abraham 3 b. Aug. 30, 1797, d. May 18, 1854, m. Clarissa H. SchelUn- 
ger, of Amagansctt, in 1821, who d. April 2, 1883; ^they had ch. Henry 
Lewis 4 b. Sept. 28, 1822, d. Aug. 1873, Mary Elizabeth 4 b. June 2, 1824, 
d. N V. 14, 1893, m. James L. Sandford Nov. 8, 1883 d. s. p., Henry Lewis 
4 b. Oct, 13, 1826, who in 1849 was one of the Argonauts to California, 
returning in the spring of 1853 ; Abraham Oscar 4 b. April 28, 1830, (car- 
penter) d. Nov. 25, 1860 d. s. p ; George E. 4 b. Sept. 15, 1844-, m. Cath- 
erine dan. Sineus C. M. Talmage of E. H. June 12, 1872, and they have 
ch. George E. 5 b. Aug. 16, 1873, Fanny 5 b. Dec. 17, 1875, Mary 5 b. May 

4, 1877. 

Henry Lewis 4 m. Oct. 12, 1853 Mary T. dau. of Talmage Barnes, of 
Araagansett, who was b. Dec. 12, 1833, d. March 14, 1896. and they had 
ch. Abraham T. 5 b. Aug. 7, 1855, Benjamin H. 5 b. Aug. 27, 1858, and 
Harriet B. 5 b. Jan. 3, 1861, who ra. Oct. 27, 1880 Edward H. Dayton 
(son of Edward and Betsey his wife, of E. H. and now one of the part- 
ners in the firm of VanScoy. Dayton & Stvatton) and have ch. Freddie 
VanScoy 6 b. Oct. 14, 1881, and Alice Mary 6 b. April 21, 1888. 

Abraham T. 5 b. Aug. 7, 1855, grad. of Mt. Union College, Ohio, in 
1876. went to Illinois, m. Alice Huestis June 17, 1877, who was b. April 
15, 1853, d. April 29, 1887, m. June 27, 1877 ; m. 2d Aug. 14, 1888 L. Es- 
telle Warner, of Illinois, b. March 29, 1866, d. Aug. 28, 1888 ; m. 3d June 
29, 1893, Lillian E. Bacon, of Milwaukee, Wis., and they reside there 
and have no ch. 

Ben.iamin H. b. Aug. 25, 1858, m. Ida F. Glover of Southold Juno 29, 
1881 and resides in E. H. engaged in mercantile business in the firm of 
Van Scoy Dayton & Strattou and was one of the founders of the E. 
H. Lumber Co., they have 3 ch. Herbert L. 6, b. Nov. 5, 1890, Leslie B. 
0, b. Feb. 2, 1894, Mary E. 6, b. April 21, 1890. 

David B. 3, b. Oct. 12, 1800, m. Oct. 3, 1827, Hannah dau. of Samuel 
Mulford of Amagausett, he d. Oct. 4, 1874, his w. d. Sept. 6, 1885, to 79 
yrs. they had ch. an infant b. Sept. 25, 1830, d. Sept. 30, 1830. 

Samuel D. 4, b. July 11, 1834, d. July 7, 1869, m. Hettie, dau.ofCapt. 
Wells GrilUiig of Eiverhead, b. Jan. 10, 1828, Nov. 14, 1858, they had ch. 
Fanny B. 5, b. Fob. 1, 1863, d. Aug. 22, 18i)3, Hannah B. 5, b. Jan. 12, 
1805, m. Charles Edwards of New Orleans Aug. 7, 187', Elizabeth H. 5, 
b. June 24, 1866, m. Charles Smith of Huntington, L. L Oct. 18, 1858, 
David B. 3, and Samuel D. 4, were father and son physicians of exten- 
sive practice, the father in East-Hampton, the son in Riverhad Suff. 
Co., N. T. 

Jacob Austin. 4, b. May 29. 1804 m. 1st Rhoda Polly of Conn, who d. 
March 27, 1803, m. 2nd. Mary dau. of Lewis and Nancy Parsons of E. H. 
he d. S. P. 

Hannah Buknett 4, d. March 20, 1851, te 43 yrs. 9 mos. d, s. p. 

Note.— It is singular that about the close of the last century Thomas 
Baker who resided north of the dwelling of Jehiel Parsons, deed., and 



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Thomas Talmage who resided on the lot now of Mrs. Tyler, died leav- 
ing no sons, and each leaving seven daughters, of whom the Bakers 
married: Betsey m. Nathaniel Hand, Polly m. Mulford Hand, Phebe 
m. Gen. Jeremiah Miller, Nancy m. Stafford Hedges, Jeanette m. Josiah 

Dayton, Abby m. Jonathan Tuthill and m. Abraham Hand. The 

Talmage daughters severally' married : Mary m. Merry Parsons, Eliza- 
beth m. Josiah Mulford, Hannah m. Reuben Hedges, Jerusha m. Steph- 
en Babcock, Abigail m. Abraham Hand, Temperance m. Erastus Dick- 
erson, of Chester, Morris Co., N. J. and Jemima was unm, in 1801. 

H. P. H. 

Additional names of persons or families, transient or resident in East 
Hampton near the years named : 



Avery, Edwai'd, blacksmith. 




1668. 


Bee, John 


1700 


1706. 


Bennett, Richard 


1657 


1662. 


Bowditch, Joel 


1704 


1718. 


Carle, John, family 


166(3 


1705. 


Carle, Recompence 


1713 




Cartland, John, probably Kirtland, 


1651 


1669. 


Codner, Mr. and Alice 


1663 




Erie, Roger 


1683-4 


16S9. 


Fairfield, Daniel 


1654 


1655. 


Hayes, Nathaniel 


1692 


1698. 


Hayes, Rachel 


1718 




Kedee, Robert, probably Cady, 


1688 


1707. 


Mason, James 


1683-4 




Meigs, John 


1651 


1654. 


Meigs, Mark 


1655 


1658. 


Meigs, Vinson 


1653 




Munson, Christopher 


1682 




Ouldlield, John 


1669-70 




Patty, Joseph 


1698-9 




Smith, Roger 


1657 


1689. 


Smith, David 


1690 


1700. 


Terrill, Thomas 


1688 


1692. 


Turner, Daniel 


1651 




Whitehair, Sarah (Whittier?) 


1698 


1706. 



The following names of early settlei-s are not now in East-Hampton : 
Belknap, Samuel Davis, Fulke Shaw, Richard 

Bishop, Nathaniel Garlicke, Joshua Simonds, William 

Bond, Robert Howe, Daniel Thomson, Thomas 

Brooke, Richard Meacham, Jeremy Veale, Jeremy 

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i]S[iDe;c OF KAT^^s. 

(EXTENDS ONLY TO THE GENEALOGY.) 



Adams, John Quincy 161 

Andre, Major 149 

Arch, Nathan E 242 

Avery, John 229 

Ayres, Benjamin 221 

Babcock, Anna L ISl 

Babcock, Capt. Howell 197 

Ba con, Leonard 39 

Bailergeau, Jacob 79, 226 

Bailey, Wm. B. . .'. 242 

Baldwin, Roger 159 

Baker, Abigail 11, Abraham 221 
Daniel 216, 221, 222, 227, David 
215, 221, David J. 242. Capt. Ed- 
ward M. 194, 197, Elizabeth, 
widow 209, Hannah 232, Henry 
L. 242, Capt. 216, 232, Jeramiah 
236, Jonathan 31, 44, 77, 216 
Jonathan, Jr. 228, Lieut, wife 
of 231, Mr. 203, Nathaniel 77, 
79, 80, 220, 221 and wife 80, 
Nathl. Sr. 203, Nathl. Jr.204, 227 
Samuel 216, 221, 227, Samuel, 
wife of 229, 231, Thomas, 6, 8, 
9, 12, 44, 53, 54, 77, 138, 140, 203 
205,v306, 209, 210, 211, 212, 214 
221, and wife 80. 

Barber. James 79 

Barnaby, Jonathan 220 

Barnes, Abraham 220, Charles 6, 
Erastus, Capt. 197, Hannah 229 
Isaac 79, 216. 228, Jeremiah 221, 
Joshua 5, Josiah 76, Mary 229, 
Matthew 221, Widow of 229, 
Noah 216, 220, Eecompense 79, 
Samuel 229, wife of 2'J9, Sr.lly 
231, Seth 220, Tallmage 235, 
Thomas 77, 79, William, 5, 8, 54, 
77, 203, 209. 221, 225, Sr. 7. 
Goodman 80, Capt. 216. 
Bassett, Cornelius 221, 223, Wil- 
liam 221, 
Baxter, Bichard 80, Maj. Jarvis 215 
Beecher, Edward 62, 165, 1(;7, 235 
Lyman 24. 9(5, 108, 114, 121 162, 
1G3, 170, 231, 235, 236, William 
162, l(i6, 167, 235. 
Bee, Thomas 204 



Belding, Ebenezer 79, 226 

Belknap, Samuel 6 

Beaman, Josiah 108, 110 

Bennett, Andrew J. 242, Augustus 
242, Edward 221, 223, Elizabeth 
236, Gamaliel 220, 223, George 
E. 242, Gilbert 242, Jeremiah 
220, John A. 242, Joshua, Capt. 
197, Lester 171, L.ewis L. 194, 
197, Milton 242, Myron T. 242, 
Nathan 242, Wm. W . 242, 147. 

Benson, Arthur W 91, 111 

Birdsall, Nathan 8, Goodman 12, 14, 
209. 

Bird, James 203 

Bishop, Daniel 61, 79, John, Jr. 194 

Nathl. 5. 8, 61, 71, 203, 209, 225 

Bond, Eobert 5, 8. 12, 54, 140, 199 

200, 205, 206, 224. 
Bone, John 242, Joseph 242. 

Bower, Zachariah 222 

Boyenton, John 242 

Braiuard, Lawyer 159 

Bridges, Dr. John 209 

Brockels, Major Antony 215 

Brooks, John 77, 204, Eichard 6, 54 

77, 203, 224, Samuel 203, 209. 

Brown, George 234. George B. 195, 

S. E. 242, Capt. George 197. 

Brush, John Conkling 231 

Bu«l, Mrs. 140, Polly 231. Saml. 24 
34, 85, 95, 120, 121. 145, 151, 220 
230, 231, 238, 239, 241, 242. 

Bullions, Alexander 25, 97 

Bunce, Mr 231 

Bunyan, John 80 

Burnett, Danl. 79, Ephraim 227, Ma- 
thias 79. 226, 227, Stephen 221 

Burr, Col. Aaron 196 

Carl, Abiel 79. 226, Widow 80 

Case, Isaac M 194 

Chappell, B. wife of 230 

Chatelaine, Jf hu F 220 

Chatfiold. Henry 220, John 32, 75 
140, 190, 220, 221. Judge 120 
Lewis 220, Thos. 5, 8, 54, 63, 75 
77, 79, 133, 195, 196, 203, 2v.9. 210 
211, 216, 220, 224, 225, 226, 227 228 



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INDEX. 



Chatfield, Thos. Sr. 214, 225, Thos. 
Jr. 203, 210, 225. 

Checkanoo 205, 208 

Cinquez. .155, 156, 157, 158, 160, 161 

Cerles, John 67, 204 

Clark, A. S 242 

Cockenoe de Long Island 105 

Cochran, Maj. 147, 148, 189.W.W.169 
Codnor, Edward 208, Mrs. 203 

Colvin, Samuel 242 

Condit, Joseph D 24, 25, 96 

Conklin. Abraham 221, Alfred 120 
Ananias 6, 224, 228, Benjamin 
61, 72, 77, 203, 216, 221, 222, 225 
230, Cornelius 79, 83, 139, 200 
201, 220, 225. 220, 227, 228, Cor- 
nelius Jr. 216, Daniel 120, wife 
of 230, David 77, 210, Ebenezer 

220, Edward 187, 188, 221, Elea- 
zur w. of 230. Ellas 220, Jr. 210 
Elisha 221, Henry 210, 234 Capt. 
Henry 197, Henry T. 242, Isaac 

221, Jacob 221, Jr. 221, Jedediah 
148, 221, Capt. 154, Jeremiah 
61, 202, 203, 208. 209, 210, 211, 
212, 214, 210, 220, 221, 224, 225, 
233, Sr. 72, 77, 225, John 77, 
79. 210, 220, 227, John Jr. 79, 
Jonathan 188, Jonathan G. w. 
of 230, Jonathan S. 90, 97, 210, 
228, Joseph 185, 187, 188, 195, 
w. of 230, Lemuel w. of 230, 
Lewis 77, 79, 230, Lucretia 230, 
Mary 83, 230, Mary widow 216, 
Mulford 221. Nathan 220, 221, 
228, Nathan 3d 221. Koscoe 120, 
Samuel 221, 222, 227, Simon 210, 
228, Sineus 210, 221, Wm. 210, 
220, 222, 242, Zebulon 221. 

Cook, Geo. 235, John 139, John C. 

242, Luther D. 192, 194. 
Cooper, Eunice 231, James H. 242, 
J. Fennimore 178, Huntting 194, 
Nathan 79, Thomas 210, Samuel 
139, Steven Jr. 221, w. of 231. 

Corey, Braddock 182 

Corte, John 203 

Cortland, Steven V 215 

Corwiu, J. L. 242, George W. 194, 
H. & N. 194. 

Creasey, Arthur 203 

Cromwell, Oliver 238 

Crook, Benjamin 33, 222 

Crowell, Thomas E 194 

Cuffee, Kev. Paul 105 

Cullura, Richard 242 



Curry, Ezekiel 194 

Daly, Jeremiah 8 

Davenport 184 

Davis, Elisha 220, Foulk 6, Good- 
man 14, John 79, 140, 217. 220, 
Major 140, Paul 223, Thomas 
J. 242. 
Dayton, Abigail 231, Beriah 228, 
Chas. B. 242, Daniel 77, 217, 228 
233, Jr. 217, David 220, Ebenez- 
er 195, Edward 179, Henry 217, 
221, 228, Henry w. of 230, Jacob 
140, 204, 221. Jane 230, Jeremiah 
217, 220, 221, 222, 234. Jesse 220 
John 37, 210, 220, 232, John 
Capt. 35. 30, 120, 228, Jonathan 
90, 97. 228, Josiah 30. 97, Nath- 
an 217, 227, Jialph 5, 7, 35, 224. 
Robert 7, 8, 01, 1.33, 139. 203. 
209,211, 212, 224, 225, Samuel - 
77. 221. 

DeCastro, John 181, 183 

Decatur, Stephen 198, John P. Col. 
234. 

Dennison, Samuel 194 

Dering. Chas. Thos. 194, Henry T. 

188, 193. 
Dibble, Christopher 221, George 79, , 
Thos. 79,220,226, Thos. Jr. 228, 
Simon 220. 
Dimon, Abraham 221, Charles 237, 
Isaac 221, Isaac Jr. 91, James 
77,203, and w. 80, John 217. 
Joseph 91. 234, 242, Nathaniel 
229, and w, 229, Thos. 203, 209, 
229. and w. 229, Thos. Jr. 203. 

Dinah 229 

Dixon, Wm. w. of 230 

Domiuy 33, Felix 228, Henry 221. 
233, Leah 231, Nathaniel 79, 203 
221, 226, 228. 
Dongan, Gov. 88, 94, 110, 210, 215. 

Douglass, Robert L 194 

Drury 171 

Duke of York 210 

Duvall, Samuel 223 

Earles, N. w. of 229 

Eaton, Theophilus 4, 199, 200 

Edwards, Abraham 221, Daniel 77, 
79, 217, 221, 225. David 217, 221, 
David Jr. 221. Edward H. 242, 
Elizabeth 231. Eli 197, Ephraim 
79, 140, 226, Henry 223, Isaac 
223, Jane 230, John 8, 77, 79, 
103, 188, 204, 209, 217, Jonathan 
82, 184, 221, Josiah 77. 



INDEX. 



Edwards, Lawrence B. 194, Lewis 
•2:i:{, Melvin Capt. 197, Sarah 
229, Silas 223. S. Woodruff 194, 
Thomas 7, 77, 203, 221. 22G 
Thos. Sr. and w. 80, 229, Thos. 
Jr. 221, Will. H, 54, 77, 204, 2C9 
217, 224, 225. 

Elliott, .iohii lOG 

Els worth. Gov 156, 159 

Ely. Eov. Saml. li. 24, 25, 96, 127, 
163. 171. 

Erskiuo, Sir Wm 150, 151 

Evans, John 79 

Eyres, Beujamiti 221 

Farlev, James 242 

Farreil, Thomas 242 

Field, James 221, John 203, Samuel 

8, 242 Sylvester 242. 
Filer, Chns. W. 242, Elizabeth. 230, 
GeorKH 172, Geo. G. 242, The- 
roii A. 237, Thos. 172, 221. 
Fithiau, Aaron 217, 221, 226, 227 
David 217, 221, Enoch 77. 203 
225, Jeiuslia I). 237, Josiah 77 
Lieut, and w. 80, Samuel 77 
209, 225, v,^. of 80, w. of 229, Wm. 
6, y, 72. 77, 120, 203, 224. 

Flagg, Azariah 235 

Flint, Maltha Bokee 109 

Fordhfim, Daniel 186, 188, Jeffrey 
182, John N. 186, Nathan Jr. 185 
Peiatiah 155, Sarah E. 182. 
Foster. Abi}?ail 231, Christopher 15 
James 185, John 185. John L. 
242, Nathaniel 15, Thomas 186 
Wakeman 223. 

Fowler, William 242 

(iann, Lewis 178 

Gardiner, Abraham 217, 220, Abra- 
ham Col. 32, 93, 97, 120, 145, 146 
1.50, 184, 228, David 89, 96, 97 
206, 217, 234, Dr. 150, 190, Giles 
217, Jeremiah 188, 220, John 32 
22o', John Jr. 221, John Lyon 
100, 140, 142, Jonathan T. 44, 
65. 84, Lyon 4 5 7 8 16 44 55 72 
116 120 i32 200 205 206 217 224 
Mary B. 237, Samuel 221, Saml. 
B. 142 228. 
Garlick, Joshua 6 7 8 52 72 79 140 
203 209 226, Joshua Jr. 203, w. 
of 52, widow 80. 

Garrison, Renach 52 203 

Gelaspie, Elizabeth 229 

Gelston, David 186 

Gentleman 205 



Germain, Lord 109 

Gladden, George 221 

Glover, Benj. Jr 194 

Gould, Alexander 242, Patrick 220 
Patrick T. 237, Phebe heirs of 
217. Theo. P. 242. 

Graham, James 215 

Green, Clias. H. 242, Henry Capt. 
155 156 157 158 1.59. 

Griffin .S3, Seth 194 

Hall, William 242 

Hallock, William 223 

Halsey, Eliphalet Capt. 191, Mar- 
tha 217. 

Hamblt^ton, William 204 

Hampden, John 3 

Hand, Abigail 229, Abraham 149 
221, Daniel 220, David 181 183 
2)8, Ellas 31 221, Ezekiel 221 
Geo. Capt. 171 172. Henry 232 
James 77 139 203 204 217 221 
Jared 233 Jeremiah 221, John 
4 5 7 8 77 205 206 224, Johii Sn 
77, John wid. of 209, Joseph 77 
140 223, Mr. 218, Nathan 222 
233, Nathaniel 33 77 79 221 222 
Ruth Misp. 172. Stephen 6 8 66 
77 204 208 209 211 212 214 220 
224 225, Jr. 227, Thomas 77 140 
202 204 218. 
203 



Handy, Aaron 242 

j Hare, Edward 204 

Harris wid. SO 229. Thomas 209, 
; William 231. 

I Hart, Betsey 231 

Hauke, Abraham 2o3 

I Havens, Chas. O. 242, Constant 217 
Daniel Capt. 191, Jonathan 217 
Jr. 217, Joseph 242, Joseph A. 
242, Wickham S. Capt. 194 197 

Hawks, John 223 

Heart, Micah 221 

Hedges, Abraham 221, Albert L. 76 
Benjamin 77 221 232, Christo- 
pher 233, Daniel 11 217 220 Da- 
vid Jr. 91 96 97 228, E. G. 235, 
Fleazar 221, Elihu 222, Ezekiel 
230, Gideon 17, w. of 230, Gov- 
ernor 77, Henry P. 169 203 234, 
Hiram Capt. 197, Isaac 7G 77 79 
217 224 227, Sr. 76, Jr. 76, Jacob 
76 221, Jeremiah Dr. 79 186 188 
Jeremiah W. Capt. 194, Jere- 
miah Jr. 188, Joanna 203, John 
140 217 221 225 235. 



INDEX. 



Hedgt-s, Jonathan 77 22?, 232. Ke- 

ziah 231, Lemuel 217, w. of 230. 

Hedges, Mehetabel 171, Nathan 223 

Phebe 231, Phineas 233, Philip 

221 233 Kobert 241, Samuel 77 

79 142 217 22G 232, Stephen 7 32 

r.l 72 76 202 204 209 210 217 220 

224 225 235, Vhos. 220, Timothy 

188. Wm. 5 7 8 44 52 76 80 133 

140 218 221 226, Jr. 218 221. Win. 

H. Capt. 197. 

Hicks, Bethiah 229 230, Eliza 188 

Elizabeth 230, Joseph 221 227 

Zachariah 221 222. 

Hildreth, Joshua 217, Saml. T. 182 

Hobart, Capt. 203, Josiah 51 61 74 

79 139 140 209 211 214 225 226 

w. of 80. 

Holland, John 242 

Homan, Mordecai 232, av. of 229. 

Hoox, John 221 

Hopkins, Edward 4 199 200 

Hoppin. BenJ. 221, Daniel 222. 1 u- 
uie 231, Henry 149 220 221, Johji 
204 225, Joseph 221, Mary 231. 

Hort.on, Azariah 104 106 

Hossington, John 226, w. of 80. 
Howe, John 220, Daniel 5 6 54. 
Howell, Abraham 139, Arthur 52 
140, Capt. 217. Edward 139, Eli- 
hu Dr. 233, Elisha 217, Eliza- 
beth 52 53. Gilbert 194, James 
185 189. James L. 242, John 209 
John, Major 138, Lewis 191 
Marchaut 181. Matthew 223 
Nathan 197, Silas 191. 
Howes, Ezekiel Capt. 171 194 197 

Howlaud, Edson 242 

Hudson, Henry 217, James C. 242 
John 188 220, Puah 230, Kobert 
79 201 226 227, Timothy 227. w. 
of 230. 

Humphries, Arthur 242 

Hungerford, Lawyer 159 

Hunt, Samuel 220, Colonel 168. 
Huntington, Abel 96 97 163 171 172 
228 241 242, Abby 171 237, Cor- 
nelia 170 171 172 239, George L. 
228 241. 
Huntting, Col. Benj. 191, Capt. 217 
Dr. Exrs. of 217, David H. 235 
Isaac M. 221, w. of 230, James 
M. 237, J. Madison 234, Jere- 
miah 234, John 217 221 233, 
Nathaniel 8 11 24 25 68 76 80 81 
95 119 120 121 148 217 220 229 



231 236 238 239, Jonathan 232 
Saml. 25 97, S. & B. & Co. 194, 
w. of Saml. 230, Wm. 220 234. 

Huilburd 33 

Butchingsou, Samuel 221 

Isaacs. Aaron Jr. 149 220 223. Esth- 
er 168 231, Samuel 168, Isham, 
Gen. 159. 
James, Eev. Thos. 6 8 12 18 55 61 
64 68 104 120 133 205 21 6 208 209 
211 214 238 239 

James the 2d King 210 

Jamieson, Prof. John F 65 

Johnson, Guy 109 

Jones, Betsey 231, Daniel 227, Ed- 
ward 204, Elisha 220, Esthe- 
231, Ezekiel 218 221, Jr. 221 
John 79 226, Mfth*'tabel 231 
Paul 198, Thomas 220 222 

Judson, Judge 158 161 

Kellv, Antony 204 

King, Daniel 221, Edward T. 242 
Frederick and w. 231, George 
E. 242, Harry B. 242, H. P. 242 
John 221, Lodowick H. 242. Ol- 
iver G. 242, Richard 221. S M, 
242. Venus E. 212, William 242 
Wilson B. 242. 

Kirle,John 225 

Knapp, George 242 

Landon, Samuel H 194 

Latham, Hubbard 188 

Larkin, Jostiua 231 

Lawrence, John B. 242, Joseph 229 
w. of 229, Wm. 242. 

Lee, Frances 170 

Leek. Abraham 221, Benj. 221 228 
Daniel 218. David 221 243, Eb- 
enezer 77 79 203 225 226. and w. 
of 80 229, Ichabod 79, Philip 203 
and Jr. w. of 229, Recompenco 
227, Stephen 77 79. 
Lester, Cynthia 236, Geo. B. 225. G. 
T. 242, W. C. 242. Samuel 172 

L'Hommedieu, Samuel 194 

Lillie, Luke 224 

Livingston, Gilbert H 234 

Loper, Abraham 225 221, Daniel 221 
David 194 221. David B. 242. 
" Geo. S. 242, Henry J. 242. James 
52 53 203 223 221. Jeremiah 221 
Lyon 79, Oliver L. 242, Lovelace 
Francis 208. 
Loweu, Thos. 197, Wm. 242, Wm. 

Cant 194. 
Luquer, Lea 170, Mrs. 169 170. 



INDEX. 



80 
236 
191 
224 
243 



Lynch, Michael 242 

Masrsaquet 205 

Mc.Cauley, Thos 

MiiClellan, Geii. Goo. B 

McKay, Capt. Geo ■ • • 

Meacham, Jeieiuiah.. .6 8 209 

Meigs, Edgar C 

Merchant, Chas 243 

Merry, Johu 218 220 

Mershon, b. L 84 236 

Miller, Abraham 120 221 228, An- 
drew 8 77, Ananias 221, Burnet 
;,2 33 120 146 218 220 228 230 
Burnett Capt. 218, Chas. H. 228 
237, Daniel 218 226, David 220 
221 222, David H. 235, David K. 
243, Davis 194, Davis Capt. 197 
Eleazar 32 79 97 100 116 120 218 
•220 227 228 232, Elisha 221, Eze- 
kiol ]72 221. E. H. 243, Geo. 7 8 
77 124 204 209 221, w. of 229 
Giird.-ii 220, Helen 237, Henry 
221, Me'zeiiiah 77, Huutting 220 
241, Jacob 221, Jason 220, Jere- 
miah 149 2U4 218 221 225 237, Jr. 
;/22i, Joel 222, John 6 77 97 149 

203 2i8 220, Jr. 204 220, Sr. 67 

204 209 225, Johu w. of i-O, Jon- 
athan 221, Jonathan A. 243, Jo- 
seph 221, Josiah 218 227, Josiah 
P.'243, Lemuel 220. Mary Ann 
237, Mrs. 142, Nathan 77 218 220 
221 222 223 226, Nathaniel 243 
Nathaniel J. 243, Teleg 221 222 
Saml. Col. 140, Saml. «. 237 
Sylvan us 120, Sylvanus Capt. 
197, Timothy 218, Uriah 188 
221, William 77 203 208 220 222 
225, Wm. B. 243. 

Mitchell, Juhu 218 

Momovveta 1^'"^ 

Mousup 208 

Moushnalias Poniute Sacbem. 



106 



Montez Pedro 15^ 

Moore, Henry 223, Robert 79 226 

Morgan, Goodman 10 

Morris, Geo. C 243 

Mulfor.i, Abraham 220, Jr. 221 
Benj. 140, Christopher 218, 
Capt. 218, David 32 220 223 and 
Col. 120, David Capt. w. of 230 
Ellas 218 221 231. Elisha 149 218 
220 and Jr. 221, Ezekiel 33 221 
228, Ezekiel Capt. 120 223, Good- 
man 10, Isaac 79 218 226, Jane 
230, Jeremiah 79 113 218 232 



Mulford. Jeremiah Capt. 171 172 
197 236, John 5 6 8 12 120 139 
140 149 204 205 200 208 209 210 
211 214 216 218 220 221 224 225 
226 and w. Mary 80 and Jr. 225 
Jonathan 221 222. Josiah 221, 
Lemuel 220, Lewis 11, M. 33, 
Matthew 79 220. w. of 231, Mul- 
ford .t Howell 194, Mulford & 
• ISleight 194, Nathan 221, Esther 
his w. 231, Phebe 230 231 23-i 
Samuel 29 30 31 50 63 64 74 120 
203 208 209 211 218 221 222 224 
225 226, Samuel, Ensign 61 214 
and Jr. w. of 229, Saml. G. 172 
Sarah wid. 218. Thos. 140 203 
218 and Jr 218 227 230, Timothy 
218, w. of Timothy Jr. 230, Wil- 
liam 140 202 203 220 243, Wil- 
liam Capt. 197. 

Murdock, Peter 79 

Myers. John 243 

NichoUs, Richard 138 210, Col. 201 

Nicoil. William 186 

Nickerson. Henry Jr 194 

Norris, Oliver 204 

Nott, Abraham 229 

Nowedouah 199 

Occum, Sampson 106 

Osboru, Abraham 221 222. Abra- 
ham Deac. 140, Benj. 75 77 203 
209 225 and Jr. w. of 229, Calel> 
77, Charles 172, Mrs. Chas. 172 
Cornelius 221, Daniel 218 225 
226, David 220, Davis 197. Ed- 
ward 77 140 172. Elisha 149 185 
218 221 241, Elizabeth 231, Eph- 
raiiu 77 79, Esther 231, Hiram 
197. Jacob 221, Jedediah 221 233 
Jeremiah 120 218 221 224 233 
and Jr. 221, John 5 8 19 50 61 

75 76 77 139 203 204 209 210 224 
Jonathan 221 and Jr. 76, Jona- 
than Capt. 152 177 197, Joseph 
8 77 79 149 203 204 218 221 222 
i;25, and Jr. 220, and Sr. 235, 
Josiah 79 220, Lewis 203 221 233 
liucy Mrs. 170, Matthew 221 
Mehetabel230, Obadiah 77, Pnc- 
be 231, Philetus 221, Smith 220 
Smith Stratton 223, Stephen 8 
224 230, Susanna 231, Temper- - 
ance 231, Thomas 5 7 8 44 61 72 

76 77 78 203 208 209 211 212 214 
218 221 224 228, Sr. 75 203 210 
224, Jr. 5 75 76 77 203 218 224 



INDEX. 



225 226, aufl w. 229, Wm. 77 194 
218 226, Win. Capt. 197, Wm. L. 
140, Zebedee 149 221. 
Overton, Theodore 243, Warren 243 

Paddy, William 243 

Parsons. Abraham 96 97 228 235 241 
Ambrose 172, Benjamin 221, Car- 
oline 172, Ellis 234, Elnathan 
221, Hannah 83 and wid. 219 
Henry 11. Jeremiah 221, John 
77 140 203 219 221 225, John, Sr. 
2C3, the 3d 219 220, the 4th 219 
220 221 228, Lawton S. 236, Lud- 
1am 33 221 222, Mary 221, Merry 
221, Phebe 76, Robert 219, Sam- 
uel 6 61 63 203 209 219 220 22 1 
241 and Jr. 77 Si 83 219 225 227 
Seth 219 221 225 227, Thomas T. 
238, Wm. D. Coi. 172. 
Payne, Albert M. 243, Cornelius 221 
Elias R. 243, Ezekiel 235, Isaao. 
221, John 223, John Howard 167 
169 170, Paul 223, Peter 223, 
William 168 170, Wm. H. 194. 

Peck, Jabez 168 

Pelletreau, Wm. S 120 

Penr.y, Joshua 234 243 

Widow 230 

Percy, Lord 151 

Perkins, Wm 61 203 

Perry, Edmund 223 

Petty, Edward 226, William E. 243 

Pharoah, Stephen 243 

Phillips, Ebenezer 24 25 96 108 
Frederick 215. 

Pidgeon, Stephen B 243 

Pierson, Abraham 219, Capt. 219 

33, David 219. Henry 139 

219, Job 223, Joseph 139, Josiah 
219, Lemuel 222. 
Pike, Benjamin 233, Selah 220 

Pilkiu, Edward 231 

Poggatacut 99 199 

Pogantoue 205 

Pogatone 205 

Porter, David 198 

Power, R.J 189 

Powhe 205 

Price, Abigail 185 189, Benjamin 8 
205 206 224, James H. 243. 

Quaw, Abraham 221 

Quincey, Josiah 98 

Raisen, Thomas 243 

Ranger, Sylvester D 235 

Raynor, Ichabod 221 

Reeves, Hon. Henry A 192 



Reney, John W 243 

Richardson, John 202 

Ring, Capt 152 

Riplev, Capt 191 

Rockwell, Mary D 171 

Rogers, Albert 194, Jonah 219 and 

Jr, 219. 
Rose, John 200, Robert 5 7 77, Ru- 
fus 159, Thomas 7 77. 

Ruize, Jose 155 

Russel, 189, David 188, John 

219, Saml. 79 183, Steven 221. 

Sachem Squaw 205 206 

Sand ford, Nathan 90, Thomas 219 
Zachariah 219. 

Sasakotako . . . '. 208 

Satterthwaite 106 

Say re, David 222, Francis 194 

James 194, Job 199, Lieut. 33. 
Sehellenger, Abraham 74 221 225 

w. of 80 7 203, Capt. 191 

David 231, Isaac 221, Jacob 79 
209 219 223 227, w. of 229, Jona- 
than 221, Phebe wid. 229, Wil- 
liam 79 and Jr. 11. 

Sedgwick, Theodore 159 

Shaw, John 140, wid. 'Ji4, Richard 
6 '77 140 203 206 209 22i,. w. of 
229, Jr. 77. 
Sherrill, Abraham 220, Abraham 
P. 235, David 91, David S. 2i2 
Henry 33 222, Hiram 171 179 
Jacob 221, Jeremiah 220 221 
Mary 231. Naomi 231, Nathan- 
iel 232, Phebe 231, Recompence 
219 220 221, Saml. 204, Jr. 221. 
Simons, John 242, Thomas 140 
William 6 14. 

Sleight, Shamgar H 194 

Smith. Caleb 237, Freeman Capt. 
197, Col. 33, Geo. 227, Sylvester 
Capt. 197, Sylvester P. 191, 
Thos. Blacksmith 51. 

Snooks, John 243 

Spragg, John 215 

Squire, John 204 227, Jonathan 221 
St'-ven 243, Thomas 68. 

Stanborough, Thomas 223 

Stanton, Joseph B. 243, Oscar F. 
243, Thos. 199 200, Wm. C. 243. 

Staples, Seth P 159 

Still, James 14 

Stratton, Ann 229, Benjamin 220 
Cornelius 80 225, w. of 229 
Eliphalet 219 227, Helen S. Mrs. 
241, John 220 221 224 225. 



INDEX. 



Stratton, John Sr. 5 8 77 203 20!) 
219 224 225, Jr. 77 80 138 140 
203 227, Jonathan 232, Joseph 
203, Matthew 221, Richard 8 77 
203 224, Sanil. 2-20, Steven 77 
221 225, Soloman 77, Thos. 204. 

Street, Nathaniel 77 

Strong, Charles 243, George 221 
James M. 243, John 221 241, Wil- 
liam 243. 

Sunk Squaw 206 207 208 

Sweeney, John 194 

Swinton, J. L 215 

Tabor, Capt James M 197 

Taikhouse 172 

Tallraage, Baldwin C. 235, Betsey 
231, Daniel 230, David 91 221 
and Jr. 221, Elisha 221. Eliza- 
b2th 76, wid. 10, Euos 220, Jer- 
emiah 221, John 124 219 221 
Mary 229, Nathl. 221 225. Re- 
becca wid. 219, Thos. 8 140 200 
209 211 219 221 224 225 226 
Capt. 203 214. Lieut. 224, Thos. 
Jr. 5 8 12 46 224, Wm. 231. 
Terry, Beiij. 243, David 243, Jere- 
miah 221. 

Tlieller, John 203 

Thompson, James 237. Thomas 5 

6 140 224, Zebulon'223. 
Tillinghast, Chas. T. 243, Polly 231 

Tooker, VVm. W 105 180 

Topping, Elward 243, Elnathau 139 

Townseud, BenJ 22(5 

Tryou, Gov 146 150 

Tuthill, Ira B. 194, Jonathan 149 221 
Tyler, John, President 235, Juli- 
ana 235. 



Vail, David T 194 

VanBuren, John 236, Martin 172 23(i 

Van Dam, Rip 209 

Van Scoy, Isaac 221, w. of 235 

Ipaac, Jr. 221. 

Vaughn, Clothier H 242 

Veale, Jeremiah 5 

Wallace, J ohn 236 

Warner, Miss 172 

Waters, Antony 200 

Watts, Isaac 242 

Wells, David 226, William 208. 

Weoncombone Sachem 106 

Wheeler, John 75 77 79 139 203 208 

225 226, Left. 61 209 211 214 229 

w. of 229, John 3d w. of 229 

Thomas 77 79. 
White, Ebenezer 219, Jr. 219, John 

190, John E. 190. 

Whitfield 167 

Whittier, John G 239 

Wick, Edward 221, wife of 230. 
Wickham, Jacob 220, Martha 171 

Thos. 145 146 220, Capt. 97 171 

Wicks, Elisha 233 

Wiggins & Parsons 194 

Wilbur, Robert N 194 

\\ illiams, Nath .52 

Winthrop 132 

Wood. Silas..,. 134 

Woodhull, Gen. 97, Richard 199. 

Worth, Therou B 194 

Wright, Isaac 243, Jerry 243, Silas 

'.^35. 
Wyaudance 99 100 106 132 206 209 

Wyandanch 199 200 205 208 

Wyoncombone 205 206 207 

Youngs. David 194 234, John 138. 



INDEX OF 
Address at General Training in 

1682 201-202 

Agriculture 66 

Allotment lands 8 88 84, meadow 9 

orig.nal 9. 
Amagausett, church in 236, corner 
stone of 236, settled 19. 

Amistad case 155 156 

Ancestors, industry of 9, love of 
Ireedi.m 26 to 31, memory of 42 
43, patriotism of 25, petition 
for representation 26 to2M, wer^i 
I'liritaiis 3, reverence for 1 
thoug.'.ts of 40 41. 
An Ire, Major in E. H 149 



SUBJECTS. 

Arre ;t of Steven Hedges, Samuel 

Muli'ord and others 61 

Association of April 1775. . .220 221 

Ai.ctianeer, Yankee 173 

Baker family 244 

Banquett in 1849, 238, odes at 239 

240, toasts at 238 239. 

Barnes family 24G 

Beecher, Lyman 96 

Beechers, three 162 234 

Bennett fooled the Britisn 147 

Bi-Centennial in ltW9 2.38 

Biers, public charge 224 

Books, scarcity of 119 

Brick kills 232 



INDEX. 



Bridge- Hampton, church corner 
stone 234, church dedicated 2:M 
Buel, anecdote of 150 151, Minis- 
ter 95. 
Burjnng ground fenced 67, may be 
fenced 234, at Jerico 234. 

Bull, huge killed 235 

Bullions, Alexander Minister. . . .97 

Canadas ceded to England 73 

Commons 67 

Chattteld family 249, John 75, Judge 

75, Thomas 75. 
Church 23, built 44, Calvinistic 54 
edifice 81 to »5, frame of 135 
gallery of C6, half-way covenant 
82, incorporated 238, members 
of hO, members of removed 229 
and state inseperable 127, suf- 
ferings of 79. 

Chronologp, style changed 94 

Clinton Acat'emy, exhibition of 18"Zl 
237, erected 37. 

Commonage 54 

Coudit, Joseph D 9G 

Conklin family 250, Jedediah 148 

Connecticut combiuatio . n 21 

Constable .... 13 

Courts 12 46 

CuUoden, wreck of 149 

Day, cold 234, dark 234, Thanks- 
giving 234. 
Dayton family 253, measles 195 

Deaths in East-Haraptom 235 

Deeds for town 199, assignment 199 
Mor.tauk 1660 205, Montauk 
1661 206, Montauk 1670 208 
Montauk, confirmation and as- 
signment of 208, Mentauk 1687 
208, 1702-3 209, May 30, 1712 209 
assignment 209, of 1720-21 209^ 

Dimon family 273 

Dominy family 258 

Dwellings, flrst location of 114, 

later 115. 
East-Hampton, association of free- 
men in 1775 145, signed 220, at- 
tachment to New England 20 
church of independent 58, 
church members removed 229 
church corner stone 236, com- 
bined with Connecticut and 
New England 135. conflict with 
Governors of New York 58, deed 
for 199, division line with South 
anipton 139, Edict of Nantes 71 
emigration causes of 71, emi- 
gration from 140, Liberty-pole 



In East-Hampton 236, Libertj^-pole 
speeches at 236, list of officers 
224, li.'it of Supervisors 228, sol- 
diers and seamen in the rebel- 
lion 242, location of settlers 8 
location of church 9, location 
of houses 9, New England in 
spirit 56, patent of Gov. Nicol 
55, patent of 1686 210, popula- 
tion of 58 141 151. price of 16 
Pux-itan 55, records of 46, rep- 
resentation claimed and denied 
138, in the Revolution 145, Rev- 
olutionary refugees 149, settle- 
ment of 4 44, settlers of 5, sev- 
ered from Connecticut 53, sum- 
mons for John Mulford 216 
taxation 71, tax list 1675 202 
tax list of 1683 203. tax of 141 
telegraph poles to Sag-Harboi- 
236, Trustees Journal 232, union 
with Connecticut 20. 

Edwards family 258 

Ely, Rev. Samuel R 96 

Facetia 241 

Fences 65 

Filer family 272 

Fire, J. Dayton's house 234 

Fires prevented 132 

Fithian family 275 

Fort 66 

Freedem, conflict for 64 

Funeral rites simple 118 

Gardiner family 277 

Gardiner's Island settled 4, annex- 
ed to East-Hampton 20 94. 
Gardiner, Col. 15u, Lyon 55, Dr. 

Nathaniel 149 

Genealogy 75 i 

General training 235 

Gioralter taken 73 

Government democratic 124, self 45 
self sustaining 125, taxation 126 

Gov. Leisler 64 

Hand family 285 yj 

Health 121 

Hedges family 290, Samuel at Mon- 
tauk 232, Benj. and Jonathan ^ 
at Montaak 232. 

Hicks family 301 

Hill, Chatfield's 195 

Hobart, Josiah 74 

Howell. Dr. Elihu 233 

Huntting family 302 

Huntting, J. Madison jouinal of 
234, Minister 95, minister taxes 
t)f 232, Rev. Samuel 97. 



INDEX. 



Huntington. A.bel 96 241, Cornelia 
170. ^ . , 

Indians 4 16 47 99, Beaman, Josiah 
anecdote of 108, Cockenoe, life 
of 105, interpret er 105, floom of 

106, dwelliug at springy bauUs 
232. intliience on Anglo Saxon 

107, love of war 109, powder 
and bullets for 232, self des- 
troyed 110, tribe disbanded 111 
Montauk 99, Gliristianity intro- 
duced 104, education among 101. 
manufactures ^'y 102, massacre 
by Narraghansetts 101, naviga- 
tion by 102. religion of 102 
small pox 102 10(5, the royal 
tribe 100, tribe numerous 100 
tributary to the Pequots 100. 

James, Thomas character of 55, 
preached to Indians 55, inter- 
preter 55. 

July 4th celebration 234 

Kent, County of l'^-^ 

Land, sale of restricted 15, sold to 

Henry Hand 232. 
Lands, division ef preferable and 
chosen 66, improvement of in 
common a failure 64, undivided 
title to 53. 

Laws 13 

Legislation as to Montauk 91, 
church 91, choristers 91, vote 
to kill all dogs 91. 

Life economic and social 116 

List soldiers and seamen in the war 
of the rebellicm 242 

London, plague and fire in 71 

Long Island, battle of 33. British 
occupation of 34, sufferings of 34 

Lots located 1-lt* 

Maidstone 123, first name of Last- 
Hampton 4. 
Mail stage from Amagansett to Sag 

Har'jor 236. 
Manufactures 66, domestic 117. 

Marlvs of cattle 90 

Marriaue, lirst in chuich 236 

McClellau, Gen. in E. Hampton 236 

mechanics wanted 10. 
Meeting bouse 14 53 234, bell to be 
rung at 9 o'c.ock 232, box for 
Psalm be ok and pitch pipe 233 
Meeting house, finishing of 232, 
flooring belfry 232, gallery in 
G6, John Hunting's pew in 233 
pew in 232, sweeping and rin 



Meeting house, upper galleries 233 

Merchandise m.ade money 126 

Mill 9 

Miller family 305 

Minds, constellation of 97 130 

Ministers James and Huntting. 68 
Thos. James, Nathaniel Hunt- 
ting, Saml. Buel, Lyman Beech- 
er, Ebenezer Phillips, Joseph 
D. Condit, Samuel R. Ely, Sam- 
uel Huntting, Alexander Bul- 
lion 23. 
Montauk, acquisition of 90, British 
took cattle from 233, cattle 
kept off 233, Christopher Hedges 
at Fort Pond 233, deed of 1660 
1661, 1670 and 1687 205 to 20i 
dividend of 234, equalization of 
three purchases 216, house to 
be built 232, at Fort Pond 233 
at hither end 233. in Indian 
field 233, Lewis Edwards at 
fatting fiehl 233, paint on 234 
Pliilip Hedges ;:t hither end 233 
sold to Aithur W. Benson 111 
stock guarded 33, three pur- 
chases equalized 112. 
Mulford family 311, Samuel orects 
warehouse 74, Samuel, his ca- 
reer 29 74. 

Murdock family 316 

Negroes in meeting house 232 

New- York commerce, trade and 
manufactures crippled 78, Gov- 
ernor of 59, arbitrary 26. 

Nowedinah 4 

Oath of Town « fficers 200 

Obligations enforced 133 

Ocean 68 

Office a duty 132 

Officers of Town 16.50 to 1750 224 

Orange, Prince of 71 

Osboru family 317 

Parsons family 326 

Parsonage 139 

Patent 28, Dongan's 62, quit rent 
under 151. 

Poggatacutt ^ 

Payne, John Howard 167 

Phillips, Kev. Ebener, character 
and death of 96. 

Plague in London 71 

Poor, aid to 130. house 532. 

Price of produce 232 

Progress of the age • • 86 

Puritans ; -^^ '^^ 



ing 



belf 2":32, to be painted 233 ! Quotations from Josiah Quiucy 1 



98 



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INDEX. 



i/i (L 



guotatious from J. G. Whittier 98. 

liaiuilies, victory of 73 

Kate list 1675 and 1G83 202 

Recorder 13 

Representation, lpgig.lative deman- 
ded 49 50 62 03, address of 1665 
wiitten by Minister James 63. 
Revolution 92, East-Hampton fav- 
ored it 31, hay provided for 233 
troops provided for 233, muster 
roll, Capt. Ezekiel Mulford's 
company 1776 222. 

Rural life diminishing 92 

Sabbath observance 129 

Sabbath school, addresses to. .234 

Sachem's Hole 99 

Sag-Harbor alotment 182, an Indian 
settlement 180, an English set- 
tlement 180, church corner 
stone 234, commerce 184, early 
residents 187, garrison in 147 
in the Revolution 189, its loca- 
tion 180, State pier 187, wharf 
(extended 190, whaling revived 
191, progress in 192, Meigs ex- 
pedition 189. physical condition 

181, population of 151. roads 

182, guide posts on 233, savings 
bank 236, wharf 185. 

Sand Hills blowing 232 

Schellenger family 330 

School house. North side 233, North 
West 233, Wainscott 233. 

Sea Spray 171 

Sherrill family 333 

Ship Henry sailed 234 

Skellinx. Abraham mariner 74 

Small pox, inoculation prohibited 

233, ijiOC.dation of 233. 
Soldiers that went to Jamaica. .233 
Southampton, alliance with 47, set- 
tled when 4. 

Southohl, settled w4ieu 4 

Squires family 335 

Standpoint for review 143 

Stocks . 14 

Storm of 1811 153 

Stiattou family 33">, Jonathan, 
school teacher 232. 

Stuart Kings 70 

Suffolk (Jouuty 33, protest of free- 
holdfea-s against 215, restriction 
to choyse Assemblymen 215, sol- 
diers in and cohtinued there 33 

Supervisors, list 1750 to 1849 228 

Tallmage family 336 

Tavern 9 

Tea and tlie toa-k(^ttle 142 



'iemperance among Indians 129 
legislation 129. 

Timber scarce 134 

Titles, Genti.man 74, Goodman 74 
Town House, meetings in 234, 
meeting 11 46, street 117. 

Training, general 172 

Truste s, town claim title to Mon- 
tauk for town 111, conveyance 
to Proprietors 111, journal of 
232, legislation by 113, manage- 
ment of Mf-ntauk 111, purchase 
part of Montauk 111. 
Tyler, Ex-President in East-Hamp- 
ton 235. 
VanBureu, Martin 236, and son in 
Kast-Hampton 236. 

VauScoy family 342 

Vessel to be built 232 

Victory at Ramilies, Turin, Oude- 
nard and Malplaquet 73. 

Wainscott settled 19 

War, i''rench and Indian 31. Revo- 
lutionary 31, of 1812 guns and 
ammunition 234. 

Warehouse at North West 233 

Wars 71 

Weather cold 235, Ocean frozen, 
ice piled up. Garjiuer's Island 
frozen in 236. 
Whale chase 174, in Gardiner's bay 
234, killed 236, at Amagansett 
234, at Bridge-Hampton 235. at 
East-Hampton 235, at South- 
ampton 235, at Wainscott 235, 
off Amagausett 235. 
Whaling 10 52 66, commerce table 

194, Sag-Harbor 196. 
Wharf at Josh Penny's 234, at North- 
west 234. 
Wheeler family removed to Smith- 
town 75. John, Supervisor 75. 

Widows favored 131 

Wind, heavy east blow 234 

Witchcraft ' 23 51 

World, end of 234 

Wrecks, brig Mars 152, barque ship 
Edward Quesuel 153, Capt. Couk- 
lin's vessel 154, at Bridge-Hamp- 
ton 235, Many 235, at Montauk 
and Amagansett 235, Napeague 
and at highland 236. 
Wreck of John Milton 136, of a 

sohooner 231). 
Wri; at. Gov. and Mr. Flagg in 
East-Hampton 235. 

Wyandance 4 16, trial of 200 

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